Biocenter Kuopio
Infrastructure description
Biocenter Kuopio was founded in 2007 to set up a multidisciplinary research network between different actors in the fields of molecular medicine and related drug research and biotechnology. The principal aim of Biocenter Kuopio is to promote the maintenance, use and development of the infrastructures related to medical and scientific research at the university. Biocenter Kuopio comprises approximately 20 infrastructures or research groups that belong to two faculties at the University of Eastern Finland: the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Science and Forestry. Biocenter Kuopio offers technology services as part of Biocenter Finland in the following areas: bioinformatics, light and electron microscopy, mammalian model organisms, biological imaging, metabolomics, single cell genomics, stem cells, structural biology, and viral gene transfers (national virus vector laboratory, NVVL). In addition, Biocenter Kuopio offers services for biomedical imaging (especially MRI and PET) and gene diagnostics.
Scientific description
Start of activity
2007
Responsible organisation
University of Eastern Finland
Keywords
metabolomics, bioinformatics, biomechanics, biomedical imaging, cell and tissue imaging, drug design, electrophysiology, genomics, phenotyping, stem cells, structural biology, virus vectors
Research infrastructure services
Metabolomics Facility and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
Bioinformatics Center
Cell and Tissue Imaging Unit
Genome Center of Eastern Finland
In vitro and ex vivo electrophysiology
Kuopio Biomedical Imaging Unit
Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design
Multiscale Biomechanics
National Virus Vector Laboratory
Phenotyping Center
SIB Labs
Single Cell Genomics core
Stem Cell Centre
Structural Biology
Other information
Fields of science
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES