Unlocking cancer research: How CanSERV funds opened doors for cutting-edge imaging at the EMBL Imaging Centre
Join the Basics of cryo-FIB milling and in situ cryo-electron tomography course (13–17 October 2025)
Open access to cutting-edge electron and light microscopy
We provide researchers from Europe and beyond with a synergistic portfolio of imaging services including cryo-EM, super-resolution and intravital microscopy to enable new ground-breaking research that crosses the scales of biology.
to new imaging technologies with a special focus on correlating technologies.
throughout the whole experimental workflow: from sample preparation and image acquisition to data analysis.
of users and facility staff in new imaging technologies and workflows.
of newly developed technologies and workflows, also in ‘open innovation’ with corporate partners.
The rapid technological developments of the last two decades have led the scientific community to achieve biological and medical discoveries at an ever-increasing pace. Today, outstanding advances in imaging technologies enable us to directly visualise the molecular machinery of life at an unprecedented level of detail. As seeing is understanding, cutting-edge microscopy is becoming a central technology platform for the life sciences. However, only a minority of scientists have access to the latest imaging technologies as the devices are expensive and complex in their set-up, maintenance and usage. We aim at making those technologies available as rapidly as possible available to the international research community from both academia and industry to enable new ground-breaking research that crosses the scales of biology.
Generous support to establish the EMBL Imaging Centre was provided by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research and the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Wuerttemberg, donations by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation and HeidelbergMaterials, as well as our industry partners Carl Zeiss Microscopy, Leica Microsystems and Thermo Fisher Scientific.
