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Nikon Instruments, a leader in the development of advanced optical technology, the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3), and the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) have joined forces to create a collaborative core facility designed to promote education and innovation in microscopy imaging.

The new imaging center is endowed by Nikon Instruments Inc., Melville, NY and its dealer, Technical Instruments, Inc., with the latest in advanced Nikon microscopy and imaging equipment. To be housed in the UCSF Mission Bay Campus Center for Advanced Technology in Genentech Hall, the Nikon Imaging Center (NIC) will provide a platform for the development of new microscopy technologies, software, analytic techniques, and imaging methods. The NIC will be equipped with the most advanced light microscopy systems capable of delivering breakthrough scientific discoveries from individual molecules to whole organisms.

"Nikon's advanced microscopy and imaging resources provide the key to unlock a revolution in biomedical research discovery," said Lee C. Shuett, executive vice president of Nikon Instruments Inc. "Nikon's imaging technology will help develop the skills of hundreds of brilliant young scientists who will make critically significant bioscience breakthroughs in the years ahead."

The facility will feature specialty Nikon microscopes, including three different kinds of laser-based confocal microscopes, Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence, and systems capable of high-content screening. The facility also offers imaging workstations featuring state-of-the-art live cell biomedical research microscopes, spectral imaging, and physiology imaging workstations, all provisioned with Nikon's advanced quantitative microscopy software and technical support. It will be open to the University's department faculty and staff and to collaborative researchers.

"The Nikon Imaging Center will contribute immensely to the progress of biomedical science," said Douglas Crawford, associate director of QB3, "Nikon and QB3 share a vision to drive innovation in experimental design and in microscopy. This collaboration reflects our mission to expand the frontier of knowledge." Nikon has opened Imaging Centers at Harvard University, at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and Hokkaido University in Japan. The Center was inaugurated today with a reception and tour for guests and the media. Several organizations which have donated equipment for the Center were also recognized at today's event.

About QB3

QB3, the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research, is the only one of the four CISI centers devoted to biomedical research. It brings together scientists from UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz and UCSF to apply intensely quantitative techniques to solve complex biological problems critical to advancing human health. The institutes were conceived by the State of California to improve collaborations between university research scientists and those in technology industries in order to accelerate the translation of basic biomedical research discoveries into diagnostics,products and treatments to improve health and assure the growth of the state's economy.