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Today, Nikon Instruments Inc. announced the opening of its newest Nikon Center of Excellence imaging facility at the University of Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson, Arizona. This new Center will bring state-of-the-art imaging capabilities to the University of Arizona Cancer Center, establishing it as one of the most advanced bioscience imaging facilities in the Western United States.

This Center at the University of Arizona Cancer Center joins Nikon’s global network of more than 20 Centers of Excellence in North America and nearly 40 worldwide. Each facility makes available the latest innovations in imaging technologies to faculty, staff and students from any academic institution, biotechnology organization or other life sciences facility.

This facility hosts six advanced imaging systems including those capable of confocal, super resolution, multiphoton and high content imaging, as well as two image analysis workstations with anesthesia and physiological monitoring tools to support small animal intravital imaging. Also included in this facility is a shared wet lab space and a fully equipped tissue culture facility for short and long-term experiments. The Center will also provide workshops and educational opportunities for the local imaging community.

“Nikon is committed to empowering the scientific community with the most advanced optical microscopy technologies available,” said Andy Davis, director of sales of Nikon Instruments Inc. “We are proud to announce our partnership with the University of Arizona in opening our newest Center of Excellence and look forward to the new discoveries that will come as a result.”

As Nikon continues to develop newer, more advanced technologies, the Nikon Center of Excellence will serve as a hub for demonstrations, education and collaboration throughout the University of Arizona. According to the Center’s Founder, current Director of the Microscopy Shared Resource and associate professor in the U of A College of Medicine, Ghassan Mouneimne, PhD, its influence will extend throughout the campus and beyond. “There is a significant need for imaging at any cancer center, and especially here at the University of Arizona,” Mouneimne said. “Making this technology available to the research community will facilitate scientific advancements by empowering scientists to ask new questions and further their research with novel experiments.”

“The Nikon Center of Excellence is a premier addition to the high-quality services the cancer center offers our researchers and the broader regional community,” added Dan Theodorescu, Nancy C. and Craig M. Berge endowed chair for the director of the cancer center. “I’m excited to bring this facility to our existing hub of multidisciplinary collaboration.”

The center’s six advanced Nikon microscopes include:

• Nikon AX R Laser-Scanning Confocal Microscope, a large field of view, inverted laser-scanning confocal microscope system that offers high-speed resonant scanning in addition to high pixel resolution galvano scanning.
• Nikon N-STORM Super Resolution Microscope, which leverages single molecule localization imaging to achieve a tenfold increase in resolution (up to 20 nm lateral) over traditional fluorescence microscopes.
• Nikon AX R Multiphoton Microscope, an upright multiphoton system ideal for intravital imaging and imaging thick samples.
• Nikon BioPipeline Slide High-Content Imaging System, an automated slide scanning system equipped with a 120-slide capacity for high-throughput imaging of brightfield/histology, fluorescence, and polarized light samples.
• Nikon CSU-W1 SoRa Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope, which combines the benefits of high-speed spinning disk confocal imaging with a twofold increase in resolution via optical reassignment, offering super resolution imaging of samples at video frame rates.
• Nikon Crest X-Light V2 Spinning Disk Confocal System, an inverted spinning disk confocal microscope that allows for high-throughput confocal imaging of cell and tissue samples.

As Nikon continues to push the boundaries of imaging technology, its Centers of Excellence play a critical role in fostering discovery, collaboration, and innovation across the global scientific community.