The CNIC Technical Units and Technological Development provide key Scientific Services to the CNIC´s research groups and to external users by arrangement. Core facilities bring state-of-the-art instrumentation and methodologies crucial to modern biomedical research cores within the reach of all CNIC investigators and graduate students and external users.

The support activities need to be tailored to the demands of the community and the staff members hired for such activities need to clearly understand their role. The support activities also need to evolve with the science carried out in the units of the laboratory. Having functioning Core Facilities proves to be advantageous for the scientists using them. This translates not only in terms of workload and efficiency aspects but also in terms of cost of projects.

These facilities are staffed by experts who not only provide research services, they also are sources of instruction and training and, as such, constitute a major educational resource for those wishing to diversify or explore new avenues of research. Besides, the core facilities carry out their own research projects together with other centres and research groups to improve the latest techniques and methodologies for developing cutting-edge biomedical research.

The Technical Units and Technological Development also provide expert training in the use of equipment and specialist techniques.

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