Enabling science through technology with VIB Cores
HOW TECHNOLOGY IS ACCELERATING SCIENCE: MEET THE VIB CORES “It’s impossible to arrive at groundbreaking discoveries without access to the cutting edge," says Dr. Geert Van Minnebruggen, head of the Science & Technology Unit at VIB. But the cutting edge doesn’t come easily, cheaply, or simply. Over a decade ago, VIB embarked on an audacious mission: to ensure that a steady, well-founded, validated supply of high-impact technological tools is accessible not only for our own. 2000 marked the birth of VIB’s very first core, The Micro Array Facility, launched to offer VIB research groups centralized technology platforms with economies of scale. “VIB prioritizes the availability of high-performing, state-of-the-art infrastructure that covers all life sciences disciplines, from disease pathways to genome insights,” explains Van Minnebruggen. “The Core program has robust, highly developed tech that it offers to VIB researchers as well as external scientists, groups and companies – for a fee.”
On the origin of impact
