The Villum Fund donates DKK 60 million for a new research centre: the VILLUM Centre for Bioanalytical Sciences
The Villum Fund has donated DKK 60 million to set up a new centre – the VILLUM Centre for Bioanalytical Sciences – at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
The centre will be managed by head of department Ole Nørregaard Jensen and will become a springboard for a number of innovative activities.
Above all, the grant makes it possible to purchase new, state-of-the-art equipment to enable the centre to build up a new research area in the field of imaging using advanced mass spectrometry methods. This new field of research supplements existing microscopy techniques and opens up brand-new avenues for studying complex biological samples from plants, as well as cells and tissue from mammals.
Advanced informatics platform
The VILLUM Centre will also establish an advanced informatics platform to be used for storing and analysing the large amounts of data produced in the research laboratories and to develop computer-based models of biochemical and biological systems.
“The interaction between experimental research in the laboratories and computer-based data analysis and simulation of biological processes is absolutely crucial when it comes to making new discoveries in the fields of biology and medicine. That’s why this major grant is so important to SDU, and we’re delighted and proud that the Villum Fund found our project proposal bold and far-sighted,” says Ole Nørregaard Jensen.
24.06.2013
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