BICS Opens Shared Open Lab with Official Launch Ceremony

BICS (Biomedical Institute for Convergence at SKKU) has established the "BICS Open Lab," a shared research infrastructure, in the Medical Building on the Natural Sciences Campus to expand shared research facilities, and has launched full operations alongside an opening ceremony.

To operate the Open Lab, BICS conducted an open recruitment of resident laboratories targeting researchers within the university, and selected a total of 10 laboratories through a review process based on research plans and utilization. The selected laboratories are scheduled to use the Open Lab for the next one year.

At the opening ceremony, researchers and students from the incoming laboratories introduced themselves and began exchanging interactions, while also sharing and discussing the key principles required for operating the laboratory.

The BICS Open Lab is a research infrastructure that integrally provides experimental space and equipment for joint use by researchers within the university, and is characterized by supporting an efficient research environment through a bench (lane)-based space allocation system and a shared equipment operation framework. In addition, essential research equipment for medical and biomedical research has been established as mandatory infrastructure, enabling researchers to focus on their research without the burden of procuring additional equipment.

In particular, the Open Lab aims to enhance research efficiency and expand the foundation for collaboration among researchers through a structure that jointly utilizes equipment and space, moving away from the conventional individually-centered laboratory space management. Through this, natural exchange and convergence research among researchers from diverse academic backgrounds are expected to be promoted.

BICS plans to continuously pursue the expansion of shared equipment and the advancement of its operational framework, and to seek qualitative improvement of the research environment through user-centered infrastructure management that reflects researchers' feedback. Through this, it is expected to strengthen the university's research competitiveness and contribute to building a globally competitive biomedical research infrastructure.