The Infrastructure Board at Karolinska Institutet (KI) has decided to fund nearly 30 of KI's core facilities with up to SEK 117 million for the period 2025-2028.
The applications were assessed in several stages, and the Infrastructure Board developed a final proposal with contributions from a scientific group and an expert group, based on their expertise and experience. The scientific group included representatives from KI and Region Stockholm.
Following the decision to grant funding, the Infrastructure Board will sign an agreement with the head of the department where the core facility is operational, to define mutual expectations.
“KI's core facilities are a great asset and function very well. It is extremely gratifying that we have been able to allocate significant operational funds for the next period. It is important that the Infrastructure Board continues to support well-functioning core facilities but also contributes to ensuring that KI's researchers have access to new core facilities," says Karin Dahlman-Wright, chair of the Infrastructure Board.
The Infrastructure Board at Karolinska Institutet has a special responsibility to provide funding for core facilities. As part of this, the Board announced funding for the operation of core facilities in the spring of 2024.
Core facilities
The core facilities that will be allocated operational funding for 2025-2028 from Karolinska Institutet are listed below. The Infrastructure Board has also allocated funds for the Centre for Imaging Research (CIR), which includes several core facilities.
- 3D-EM Core Facility
- ANA Futura BSL3 Core Facility
- The Animal Behavior Core Facility (ABCF)
- Bioinformatics and Expression Analysis Core Facility (BEA)
- Biomedicum Flow Cytometry Core Facility (BFC)
- Biomedicum Imaging Core Facility (BIC)
- BSL3 Biomedicum Core Facility
- Biostatistics Core Facility
- Genomic Medicine Center Karolinska (GMCK) *
- Clinical Proteomics Mass Spectrometry Core Facility
- CRISPR Functional Genomics
- The Developmental Tissue Bank Core Facility
- eHealth Core Facility
- Electron Microscopy Core Facility (EMil)
- Histological Core Facility – Histocore (Biomedicum)
- KCTT Transgenic Core Facility
- KI Biobank Core Facility
- KIGene – Genetic Analysis and Spatial Biology
- The Live Cell Imaging Core Facility (LCI)
- MedH Flow Cytometry Core Facility
- Morphological Phenotype Analysis Core Facility (FENO)
- Preclinical Laboratory (PKL) Portal South
- Protein Science Core Facility (PSF)
- Proteomics Biomedicum Core Facility
- Single Cell Core Facility Flemingsberg (SICOF)
- Small Molecule Mass Spectrometry Core Facility (KI-SMMS)
- X-ray Irradiation Core Facility - ANA Futura & Biomedicum
- X-ray Irradiation Core Facility - KM
- Zebrafish Core Facility
This article was first published on 21 November by Karolinska Institutet.
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