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BioImagingUK
BioImaging UK is a grass-roots organisation of scientists who develop, use, or administer imaging solutions for the life sciences. BioImagingUK arose in order to represent the views of the UK bioimaging community within Euro BioImaging. However, it has come to focus on organising the UK bioimaging community and representing their views in a variety of forums including government consultations and discussion with the Research Councils UK.

The BioImagingUK Wiki is central point of this collaborative effort.

Aims and Activities
According to the BioImagingUK website, the aims and activities of BioImaging UK are:

1. To develop and exploit new imaging technologies– driving development of and access to state-of-the-art imaging instrumentation.

2. To devise and help implement mechanisms to enable shared access to the general and specialized expertise based in life sciences and medical imaging laboratories and facilities throughout the UK.

3. To engage our departments, universities, and funding bodies to develop career models for the personnel that develop, maintain, and enable advanced imaging technology for the life and medical sciences.

4. To define new training programmes, to provide the foundation for the next advances in life sciences and medical imaging within the UK.

5. To work inclusively to define short and long-term strategy statements to our research funding bodies, in order to help articulate funding requirements and priorities.

List of UK Biological Imaging Facilities
BioImaging UK has helped to compile a list of all Biological Imaging Facilities in the UK, which is maintained by The Imaging and Cytometry Laboratory of the Bioscience Technology Facility at the University of York.