Research Core Facilities

The Faculty of Science and Medicine provides access to shared scientific infrastructure through research core facilities in order to enable scientists to carry out research at the highest level.

Mission

News

First edition of the Open Cores Day

On 2 October 2025, the research core facilities organised the first Open Cores Day for scientists at the University of Fribourg to discover and engage with their technology platforms.

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Multi-photon microscope now fully operational

With the testing phase completed, the THORLABS Bergamo II multi-photon microscope is now accessible to all faculty members via the Bioimage Core Facility.

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New microscope
Leica DMi8 THUNDER

This automn the new microscope for live samples was installed. It is optimised for speed and delivering gorgeous image data. 

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Resources

Besides the research instrumentation, there is a number of resources that concern all core facilities and which are a result of a community effort.

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Core Facilities Booklet 2025

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Technologies

Putting technologies in context of scale and applications - a tour d'horizon of past and current developmpents.

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