Six European research centres in life sciences share technology and expertise in a new alliance for core facilities. As life sciences become increasingly dependent on technology, research centres create separate “core facilities” with innovative and cutting edge technologies, to serve their own institute. From now on Core for Life- members will share the fast-evolving technologies and expertise from their core facilities at European level. This will allow them to maximize resources and best practices to produce excellent science. Core for Life members today are the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Spain, the Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB) in Belgium, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, the Functional Genomics Center Zurich (FGCZ), the Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC) / Campus Science Support Facilities GmbH (CSF) in Austria and the MPI-CBG.
Core for Life was established in 2012 as an Excellence Alliance of Life Science Core Facilities in Europe. The mission of Core for Life is to explore the potential of coordinating and bundling core facility expertise and resources across institutes and countries in order to advance knowledge and to benefit the entire scientific and technological community.