Project

CoreSpace: Integrating Spatial Multiplex Imaging into Shared Infrastructure

Code
bof/bas/2025/093
Duration
01 December 2025 → 30 November 2027
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Laboratory medicine not elsewhere classified
    • Medical proteomics
    • Medical transcriptomics
    • Molecular and cell biology not elsewhere classified
    • Laboratory medicine not elsewhere classified
    • Medical proteomics
    • Medical transcriptomics
    • Molecular and cell biology not elsewhere classified
Keywords
Core facility histology Spatial Proteomics Spatial multiplex imaging Spatial Transcriptomics
 
Project description

Histology is the study of human or animal tissue at the cellular level and is the basis of fundamental and translational biomedical research. The Core Facility Histology, part of the recognized Core ARTH, has basic equipment for the preparation and evaluation of tissue samples in the context of histo(patho)logical and immunohistochemical research. This currently includes equipment for tissue preparation, embedding, sectioning, staining and simple microscopy. Given that research into the physiology and pathophysiology of tissues and organs involves a complex network of different cells, there is need for a system that allows identification of different markers within the same tissue sample. With this application, we wish to supplement the Core Facility Histology with a spatial multiplex imaging device, based on fluorescence and spectral imaging, that is affordable and user-friendly for everyone and with which research can be performed at a competitive level.