In response to the growing demand for a flexible and efficient tool capable of analyzing diverse analytes across various research fields, we will establish a central mass spectrometry facility at Campus Krems. This infrastructure will be installed by the University for Continuous Education (UWK) within their perimeters in cooperation with and accessible to the partner research institutions (Danube Private University - DPU; Karl-Landsteiner University - KL) and designed to engage prospective partners for national and international research collaborations. The MALDI/ESI-MS system enables the analysis of a wide array of sample types crucial in research areas, including aquatic ecosystems, clinical research, diagnostics, as well as material science, for which UWK, KL, and DPU are partners combining their respective expertise in ecology, ecophysiology, biomedicine, regenerative medicine, and oncology.

These highly interdisciplinary fields require a collaborative approach to generate scientific novelty and innovation in research fields including climate change, food quality and human health, pathophysiological processes during inflammation, structure of biomaterials and their biocompatibility, and new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in cancer and inflammatory diseases. The resulting merger of unique expertise at the campus turns Krems and Lower Austria into an innovative and competitive research location and enables the acquisition of high-tech research projects. Finally, this new research capacity will consequently act as magnet for scientists and create novel opportunities for long-term collaboration with partners at national and international level.

Funding: 
FFG - The Austrian Research Promotion Agency
www.efre.gv.at - EU-funding for regional development