Mass cytometer with imaging function

• Subject Area: Medicine
• Term: Funded in 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 571964215

We aim to upgrade the existing mass cytometer with imaging function to the newest model generation with better performance in sensitivity, automation, stability and maintenance. Due to the strong demand for use in our mass cytometry facility (a shared facility of the Medical Faculty Freiburg), we currently experience long waiting lists. Moreover, we experience increasing downtime of the instrument of the old model generation. The upgrade to a novel model generation will improve speed of acquisition, data quality and automation of acquisiation ue to technological upgrades as well as reduced maintenance. This will be a major improvement for the use since the low acquisition speed is highly relevant in imaging mass cytometry, a technology central to many ongoing and planned multiomics research projects. The upgrade is possible with minimal changes to the existing facility infrastructure.

• DFG Programme: Major Research Instrumentation
• Major Instrumentation: Massenspektrometer-gekoppeltes Zytometer mit Imagingfähigkeit
• Instrumentation Group: 3500 Zellzähl- und Klassiergeräte (außer Blutanalyse), Koloniezähler
• Applicant Institution: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Leader: Professor Bertram Bengsch, Ph.D.