The iNEXT project (10 million budget), coordinated by Prof. Rolf Boelens from the NMR group, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, got funded under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme.
iNEXT (infrastructure for NMR, EM and X-rays for Translational research) will provide high-end structural biology instrumentation and expertise, facilitating expert and non-expert European users to translate their fundamental research into biomedical and biotechnological applications. iNEXT consists of a consortium of 23 partners and brings together leading European structural biology facilities under one interdisciplinary organizational umbrella. It includes synchrotron sites for X-rays, NMR centers with ultra-high field instruments, and, for the first time, advanced electron microscopy and light imaging facilities. Together with key partners in biological and biomedical institutions, partners focusing on training and dissemination activities, and ESFRI projects (Instruct, Euro-BioImaging, EU-OPENSCREEN and future neutron-provider ESS), iNEXT forms an inclusive European network of world class.