A new Dundee University imaging suite will open today.
The Dundee Imaging Facility is an £8 million unit that will allow academics and researchers to use advanced microscopes and super microscopes to analyse cells and tissue.
Over the past two years external funding and strategic partnerships have been forged with with big names in commercial engineering, leading to a shift in the way scientists at the university work and the imaging technology they have access to.
Professor Jason Swedlow, academic lead on the growth and development of the facility, said: “The opportunities for discovery based on biological microscopy are enormous, but these are perhaps equalled by the challenges in applying this rapidly evolving technology to important biological and biomedical problems.
“The new facility extends existing, proven expertise to the cutting edge and provides a vehicle for delivering this technology within a proven, sustainably-run, imaging facility that serves the scientific goals of users from Dundee, Scotland and the UK.”
Biological Sciences research at Dundee was rated top among universities in the UK in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF).
The REF is the main test of research quality carried out by higher education funding bodies.