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The New Northern Eye - Cryo EM for the North East

19 August 2025
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Along with Newcastle University and Northumbria University, members of the Biophysical Sciences Institute have secured funding from the BBSRC (ALERT) to bring powerful new cryo-electron microscopy tools (cryoEM) to the North East.

Collaborative Innovation 

The three universities will work together to manage and operate the microscope facility efficiently. The microscope will be located at Newcastle University, with a new cryo-EM lab in Durham, and will complement existing strengths in X-ray crystallography and computational structural biology across the three partner institutions.

The new cryo-electron microscope will provide valuable imaging capabilities to scientists across the North East region of England. It promises to lead to many new biological discoveries and innovations.

 

Find out more

  • Professor Ehmke Pohl is the Durham lead of this project.
  • Professor Wyatt Yue of Newcastle University is the overall lead of this project and his team includes Professor Jon Marles-Wright (Newcastle) and Professor Gary Black (Northumbria).
  • This project is carried out by our interdisciplinary and cross-departmental Biophysical Sciences Institute (BSI) with a number of groups from the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Biosciences involved.
  • Visit Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) website.
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