Life Science Infrastructure Hub for the national large-scale infrastructures SciLifeLab, MAX IV and the international infrastructure ESS (Infra Access for Life Science Sweden - InfraLife)

Infra Access for Life Science Sweden (InfraLife) aims to maximize the benefits of investments in Sweden’s large strategic national infrastructures SciLifeLab and MAX IV and the international infrastructure ESS in the field of life science.

The InfraLife Hub initiative will bring the infrastructures together to create a unique and powerful collaboration, seeking synergies, expanding knowledge and availability of new technologies to new user groups.

Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), is a national infrastructure for molecular bioscience research, MAX IV is currently the brightest X-ray source in the world and the European Spallation Source (ESS) will be the world’s most powerful neutron source.

Together we will engage the broad life science community in academia, industry and health care, and jointly develop new technology-, data- and challenge-driven capabilities across all sectors of life science.InfraLife Hub builds on the individual external relations functions at the infrastructures, bridging these and providing a single point of entry.

Cross-sectorial workshops will be applied to spur research programs and collaborations through a three-step model.

For example, all three infrastructures are already very strong in structural biology, with complementary capabilities that can now be better explored and exploited.

The industrial branch organizations SwedenBio and LIF act as partners and provide a link to the entire industrial life science community across Sweden.