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January 2002
Harvard Medical School's Nikon Imaging Center
Harvard Medical School opened the doors of a new facility designed to be one of the world's most sophisticated research centers for life science imaging. The Nikon Imaging Center at Harvard Medical School provides researchers with advanced microscopes and camera equipment, software, staff and expertise, in an environment intended to stimulate the highest levels of scientific inquiry. It is open to Harvard Medical School's Cell Biology department faculty and staff immediately, and will soon be available to guest researchers as well.
The new imaging center was endowed by Nikon Instruments Inc. (Melville, NY) and its distributor in the Boston area, MicroVideo Instruments, Inc., with the latest in advanced Nikon microscope and camera equipment. The facility offers imaging workstations featuring state-of-the-art biomedical research microscopes, confocal instruments, digital imaging equipment, stereo microscopes, micromanipulation tools and related instrumentation, software, and technical support of all kinds.
"At the core of our involvement with this Center is the desire to use our resources [to] promote advanced microscopy imaging in the heart of one of the most energetic and creative bioscience institutions in the world," said Lee C. Shuett, Executive Vice President of Nikon Instruments Inc.
"Nikon Instruments, MicroVideo Instruments, the Imaging Center Director and the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School all share this common vision. By placing our instruments and people at the Center, we will be advancing the skill level of literally hundreds of brilliant young scientists who we can fully expect will be deeply involved in important and significant breakthroughs in scientific discovery in the years ahead," Shuett continued.
"The
Nikon Imaging Center at Harvard Medical School is an exciting
opportunity to increase the depth and quality of biomedical
science through a new type of cooperative relationship between
our community and instrument manufacturers," added
David Van Vactor, Associate Professor of Cell Biology at
Harvard Medical School. "This shared vision, generously
supported by our partners Nikon and MicroVideo, along with
several other contributors, promises to drive innovation
in experimental approaches and in microscopy, and represents
the best spirit of our collective desire to push forward
the frontier of knowledge."
