The Dutch Research Council NWO has awarded a €3.5 million ‘Large-scale Research Infrastructure (LSRI) – Upgrade 2025’ grant to the Netherlands Proteomics Centre (NPC) of Utrecht University. The funding will be used to upgrade the proteomics infrastructure, support operations, and integrate AI-based methodology, ensuring continued breakthroughs in disease research and therapeutic discovery.
Thanks to the new grant, the NPC can remain a leading proteomics facility for the Netherlands. Moreover, by involvement of Pavel Sinitcyn, who is appointed within the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University, AI-based methodology will be integrated in the NPC for advanced data processing and enhancing acquisition strategies.
Through the National Roadmap for Large-Scale Research Infrastructure (LSRI), NWO funds the construction or improvement of large-scale research infrastructure that enables the Netherlands to occupy an important position internationally. Via LSRI - Upgrade 2025, NWO is making strategic investments in upgrading operational LSRIs, to bring them to (beyond) state-of-the-art with the aim of extending the operational lifetime.
