Research infrastructures

Research infrastructures are a prerequisite for conducting research. They support organised research and doctoral education, as well as maintain and develop the capacity for research. In addition to Faculty research infrastructures, we participate in research infrastructure networks.
What is a research infrastructure?

Typical research infrastructures include

  • Equipment, research and measuring stations, research vessels and specialist laboratories
  • Research material collections and databases, archives and libraries
  • Telecommunications networks, centres for high-performance computing and other computing capacity
  • Infrastructure maintenance and upkeep, as well as support services provided to users.

Several research infrastructure facilities of the Faculty of Pharmacy  and HiLIFE offer research services, instruments, facilities and technologies for academic research groups, companies and authorities subject for charge.
Explore our research infrastructures
Drug Discov­ery, Chem­ical Bio­logy and Screen­ing

Tools to enable world class chemical biology research

FIMM High Throughput Biomedicine unit and the Faculty of Pharmacy form together the HiLIFE Drug Discovery, Chemical Biology and Screening platform. The expertise within the platform units includes drug discovery & chemical biology process guidance and advice, assay development, high throughput and high content screening, chemoinformatics, follow-up assays, in vitro ADMET and connections to organic/medicinal chemistry.
Quantitative chemically-specific imaging infrastructure for material and life sciences (qCSI)

The qCSI consortium is a world-class infrastructure for advanced vibrational spectroscopic imaging that serves users in Finland, the Nordic countries and beyond. The instruments are located at the Universities of Helsinki (multimodal coherent Raman microscopy), and Jyväskylä (near-field optical microscopy) while the online spectral processing and data analysis platform is developed and based at the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology. The infrastructure is being used for imaging and spectral analysis in diverse material and life sciences.
SPECT-CT Imaging Unit

How can SPECT imaging help you?

Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging is a versatile imaging modality complementary to others like PET or MRI. SPECT/CT is versatile non-invasive molecular and morphological functional imaging technique with great translational potential in biomedical research and drug development. It is characterised by the in vivo detection of tracers, labelled with a γ-emitting isotope (25-365 keV), and administrated to live animals at levels well under their pharmacologically active concentrations (high sensitivity). Tracers may bind to a specific protein in specific tissue in the body, or to drugs or to delivery systems.
All HiLIFE Infrastructures

University of Helsinki Life Science Research Infrastructures are available as HiLIFE platforms to all University of Helsinki researchers as well as users outside the UH.
For Faculty staff

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