AMBER · Advanced Multiscale Biological Imaging using European Infrastructures

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Project objective

The AMBER consortium has been assembled for the exploitation and development of large-scale European infrastructures to address key needs for biological imaging. This covers length scales from molecular, through cellular, to tissue, organ and organism levels of organisation. AMBER brings together four research centres and three large scale research infrastructures with a wide range of competence including clinical practitioners, biological and biomedical scientists, physical scientists, and facility/infrastructure experts. We exploit an ongoing convergence in the scientific landscape in terms of European central facility development, data management, and data analysis and interpretation, coupled with the explosive growth in the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches. It is hard to imagine a time for which there has been a bigger need to bring together communities from different fields in an adaptive and progressive way. In addition to the gaps of knowledge that exist between different levels of organisation (e.g., between molecular and cellular levels), there are also major gaps in scientific culture – for example between clinical and fundamental science. AMBER will create fellows with unprecedented medical, biological, and methodological capabilities, with a profound potential impact for Europe’s next generation of research and researchers. This 5-year programme will recruit 42 post-doctoral research fellows, in three calls of 14 fellows each, with each fellowship of 36-month duration. Work will include technique development, particularly in terms of combining imaging techniques and data to provide a more integrated picture of life processes in the context of health & disease. Fellows that have completed this programme will be extraordinarily well equipped to further their career in academia, at infrastructures, in the health and MedTech sectors, and beyond.

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Participants

• LUNDS UNIVERSITET · LundCoordinatorSweden
• AARHUS UNIVERSITET · Aarhus CDenmark
• ASTON UNIVERSITY · BirminghamUnited Kingdom
• ASTRAZENECA UK LIMITED · CAMBRIDGEUnited Kingdom
• BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY · STANFORDUnited States
• CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBH · JenaGermany
• CONSORCIO PARA LA CONSTRUCCION EQUIPAMIENTO Y EXPLOTACION DEL LABORATORIO DE LUZ SINCROTRON · Cerdanyola Del Valles BarcelonaSpain
• DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · Kongens LyngbyDenmark
• DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LIMITED · DidcotUnited Kingdom
• EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY · GrenobleFrance
• Exciscope AB · KistaSweden
• FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUR MOLEKULARE PATHOLOGIE GESELLSCHAFT MBH · WienAustria
• Harvard Medical School · BostonUnited States
• INSTITUT NATIONAL POLYTECHNIQUE DE TOULOUSE · Toulouse Cedex 4France
• KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · KOBENHAVNDenmark
• LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH · WetzlarGermany
• LIFEARC · LONDONUnited Kingdom
• LINKOPINGS UNIVERSITET · LinkopingSweden
• MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · MUNCHENGermany
• MIEDZYNARODOWY INSTYTUT BIOLOGII MOLEKULARNEJ I KOMORKOWEJ W WARSZAWIE · WarszawaPoland
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Oak RidgeUnited States
• Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp · Santa BarbaraUnited States
• STICHTING AMSTERDAM UMC · AmsterdamNetherlands
• STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET · StockholmSweden
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN · WienAustria
• THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · CAMBRIDGEUnited Kingdom
• UCB PHARMA SA · Bruxelles / BrusselBelgium
• UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION · SWINDONUnited Kingdom
• UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX · ColchesterUnited Kingdom
• UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER · LeicesterUnited Kingdom
• USTAV ORGANICKE CHEMIE A BIOCHEMIE, AV CR, V.V.I. · PRAHA 6Czechia

Links

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• DOI: 10.3030/101126665
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