TNMU Has Got the Most Recent Laboratory Equipment

I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University as a winner of the Instrumental Access 2019 programme by Seeding Labs, a non-profit organization from Boston, has got the most recent laboratory equipment (https://seedinglabs.org/programs-and-impact/instrumental-access/ia2019/ternopil-state-medical-university/).

Making scientific resources available through charitable contributions by large corporations such as Harvard University, Merck, GE Healthcare Life Sciences, Novartis, Takeda, the US government organization USAID and other is the mission of this non-profit organization.

The contestants were chosen very carefully: it was necessary to justify their need for equipment, but also to demonstrate the value and future prospects of the research as well as the potential impact on their activities. In addition, the factors such as stability of the school as well as the whole country, academic and research achievements, and infrastructure capacity were evaluated.

Thus, TNMU has got a 20-foot marine container with up-to-date equipment, i.e. equipment for molecular biological and pharmaceutical research (23 cubic meters: a flow cytofluorimeter BD Accuri, equipment for electrophoretic research Amersham, Hoefer, Fisher Scientific, Invitrogen, chromatographic equipment Waters, chromatographic columns Sigma, centrifuges Eppendorf and Beckman Instruments, INC, amplifier PCR Machine MultiGene OptiMax, fluorescent microscope Olympus. Water purification system Millipore SAS, mini-vortexes, shakers, consumables, fume hood for keeping the reactants, four powerful freezers (up to -86 ° C) Sanyo and Thermo Scientific, powerful autoclave, lyophilic drying Labconco, rotary evaporator, two powerful CO2 incubators for growing cell cultures Sanyo, heating laboratory platforms were also received.