Explore Medfarm’s research infrastructures
Do you require an advanced microscope or biological samples in your research? Or another instrument or service? As a Medfarm researcher, you have access to a range of research infrastructures and service facilities that you can make use of.
Medfarm houses research infrastructures in medicine and pharmacy, such as experimental equipment, databases and biobanks. Uppsala University also hosts several national and international infrastructures and participates in numerous research infrastructures led by other higher education institutions and organisations.
Examples of research infrastructures
There is not enough space here to describe all available resources, but only to give some examples:
- Infrastructure for Low Molecular Mass Spectrometry – expertise in chromatography and mass spectrometry related to drug analysis and metabolomics.
- Simpler – individual database and biobank for hypothesis- and data-driven epidemiological research.
- Uppsala Clinical Research Centre (UCR) – a resource for the design of clinical research and operation of national clinical quality registries.
- SciLifeLab Affinity Proteomics Unit – expertise in analysing proteins in samples from human body fluids, cells and tissue lysates.
- U-CAN – infrastructure to collect data and to biobank blood and tissue samples for cancer research.
- BioVis – instruments, technology and know-how for visualisation of biological samples.
The research infrastructures are listed on the web, see the links further down the page.
Tove Fall, Vice-Dean for Research Infrastructures, met the managers of all Medfarm infrastructures at a meeting at the end of November. Photo: Erik Ullerås.
Increased visibility to attract more users
A general problem for many of the infrastructures seems to be that researchers are often unaware of their existence. In order to strengthen their activities, exchange experiences and increase usage, the managers of all Medfarm infrastructures joined at a meeting at the end of November. One of the topics discussed was how to raise awareness of the infrastructures and the services they offer. The managers also called for additional similar meetings to increase cooperation between the infrastructures and benefit from each other’s experiences, as well as meetings aimed at researchers who want to use the infrastructures.
“It turned into an intensive and fun morning,” says Tove Fall, Vice-Dean for Research Infrastructure. “We managed to include both presentations of all facilities and rewarding discussions about common challenges and opportunities. It was obvious that there is a need for these kinds of networking meetings.”
Kerstin Henriksson