One step ahead: Innovation in core facilities

Saskia Lippens; Christophe D'Enfert; Lilla Farkas; Anna Kehres; Bernhard Korn; Mònica Morales; Rainer Pepperkok; Lavanya Premvardhan; Ralph Schlapbach; Andreas Tiran; Doris Meder; Geert Van Minnebruggen

doi:10.15252/embr.201948017

One step ahead: Innovation in core facilities

EMBO Rep. 2019 Apr;20(4):e48017. doi: 10.15252/embr.201948017. Epub 2019 Mar 14.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ BioImaging Core and VIB Center for Inflammation Research, VIB, Ghent, Belgium.
² Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
³ Direction de la Technologie et des Programmes Scientifiques, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
⁴ MPI-CBG, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.
⁵ Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.
⁶ CRG, Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ EMBL, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁸ Institut Curie, Paris, France.
⁹ FGCZ, Functional Genomics Center Zurich of ETH Zurich/University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁰ VBCF, Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities, Vienna, Austria.
¹¹ Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
¹² Flanders Institute for Biotechnology VIB, Ghent, Belgium.

Abstract

Core facilities—originally founded to give scientists access to a specific technology or service—have expanded to become incubators for new technologies and services. While it has many benefits, it also creates unique problems and challenges.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Biological Science Disciplines / organization & administration*
Health Facilities*
Humans
Inventions*
Research / organization & administration*