India’s first Nikon Centre of Excellence unveiled at IIT-Hyderabad

Hyderabad: India’s first Nikon ‘Centre of Excellence’ (CoE) was launched at Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IITH). The CoE was unveiled by the IITH and Nikon India, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nikon Corporation, a press release stated.

The CoE opened at the IITH campus will serve as a hub for advanced imaging technologies to trainees, visiting scholars, and collaborators across the country. It aims to empower researchers to explore biological systems at various scales — from single cells to human tissues — facilitating breakthroughs in high-resolution imaging. The center will also promote collaborations between IIT-H researchers and Nikon.

CoE coordinator Dr. Shourya Dutta Gupta said that the researchers will get an opportunity to use the state-of-the-art imaging technologies, apart from an AXR-point scanning confocal system with NSPARC superresolution and TIRF imaging capabilities.

He also added that the centre will house a Nikon inverted microscope Ti2-E for fluorescence imaging, a Nikon TS2FL inverted tissue culture microscope and a Nikon SMZ 800 with a fluorescence attachment for macro imaging.