By Heather Hobbs
BRINGING YOU THE LATEST NEWS & EVENTS FROM THE SCIENCE INDUSTRY
Researchers turn to Electronic Notebook
The Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) has signed an agreement which allows BIH member entities and its employees to use labfolder’s electronic lab notebook at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (University Hospital) and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin-Buch.
The BIH is the second major customer that Berlin-based start-up labfolder has gained in a short period of time. Since October 2016, 11,000 researchers at the Max Planck Society have had access to labfolder’s electronic lab notebook. More than 4,000 researchers at the Charité and the MDC will now be able to use the system.
requirements and provides a unified approach to data security and archiving.”
Dr Simon Bungers CEO labfolder
“The license agreement with BIH, a unique scientific institution in Berlin, is another key milestone in our company’s development,” said Dr Simon Bungers, CEO of labfolder. “The agreement also shows the importance of centralised and digital data management solutions for large research associations. labfolder meets all compliance
“Data quality is critical for the success and reproducibility of research,” said Professor Ulrich Dirnagl, Head of the Department of Experimental Neurology at Charité and Founding Director of the Center for Transforming Biomedical Research at the BIH who also initiated the institution’s introduction of the electronic lab notebook. “Adopting labfolder’s lab notebook is therefore part of BIH’s quality initiative. It introduces a uniform digital standard that meets the rules of Good Scientific and Laboratory Practice. The new electronic lab notebook also enables documentation to meet the
requirements of international regulatory authorities. This improves the quality of research data, which ultimately facilitates the translation of research results.”
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Ogden Centre to Support Durham’s Space Science Capability
Reaffirming its position as a world leading centre of research in astronomy and cosmology, Durham University has celebrated the opening of the new £11.5 million Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics which will house international team of 140 researchers and support staff investigating the mysteries of the cosmos, from the birth of the Universe through to the origin of galaxies, to the nature of dark matter and dark energy. The new centre will house the University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology, (ICC), the Centre for Extragalctic Astronomy (CEA) and the Centre for Advanced Instrumentation(CfAI).
The development was made possible thanks to generous donations of £3.35 million from The Ogden Trust, whose Chairman is Durham physics alumnus and entrepreneur Sir Peter Ogden, £1.5 million; from the Wolfson Foundation and a further £900,000 from a private benefactor. Additional funding was also provided by Durham University.
ICC researchers carry out supercomputer simulations of the evolution of the Universe, which by solving equations from Physics and including dark matter and dark energy, track the formation of cosmic structures from the Big Bang to the present day. Under certain conditions, they produce galaxy populations that closely resemble those in the real world.
The CEA leads observational studies of the formation and evolution of galaxies and massive black holes and the growth of large scale structure across the whole history of the Universe. These studies exploit data from the largest ground and space-based telescopes and wide-field surveys of galaxies and Quasars to understand how the Universe we see today came into being.
The CfAI support these activities through the development of novel and innovative instrumentation for ground and space-based telescopes (including the new European Extremely Large Telescope in Chile) using facilities both in Durham and at the NETpark technology park near Sedgefield, County Durham.
The new building, which has also freed up space for Durham’s Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP), a leading research centre into particle physics, also provides the basis for regional and national outreach programmes undertaken by the Centre’s researchers to support public engagement in science in schools and the wider community.
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