Infrastructure and resources for research
Karolinska Institutet offers a wide range of service laboratories, competence centres and apparatus in areas such as imaging, biostatistics, biobanking, proteomics and genomics, and has a coherent organiation for animal research. In recent years, our two main campuses in the Stockholm area have expanded rappidly, with new buildings for laboratories, offices and animal facilities. The University Library is the largest medical library in Scandinavia and open to the public.
Core facilities
A wide range of research technologies and services
A wide range of research technologies and services
Karolinska Institutet offers a wide range of core facilities, providing technologies, services and competence to academic research in Sweden. These core facilities were all founded to meet the needs of the university’s own scientists — and they are under constant development and evaluation. KI is also partner in several national research infrastructures.
On this page you will find a thematic overview of our core facilities, and also resources for research on COVID-19.
Research buildings
ANA Futura
ANA Futura
ANA Futura is located on Campus Flemingsberg, south of Stockholm city and is a translationally integrated research environment, equipped for cutting-edge research, where boundaries between departments and disciplines are torn down and researchers collaborate. There is a large selection of core facilities, advanced labs and function rooms.
Bioclinicum
Bioclinicum
The research house Bioclinicum at Karolinska University Hospital, Solna is a hub for clinical research and is planned to increase the integration between research, education and medical care. Several of KI's clinical departments have premises in the building that also houses a clinical training center.
Biomedicum
Biomedicum
Biomedicum gathers a major part of the experimental research on Campus Solna under one roof — in an advanced research environment that promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and pioneering results. The house is situated near by Aula Medica and Karolinska University Hospital, with a roofed bridge to the Bioclinicum building.
Neo
Neo
Neo opened in 2018 and is a building for experimental biomedical research on Campus Flemingsberg. In addition to being a living and creative hub for research, there are also state-of-the-art lecture halls and meeting rooms. Neo and ANA Futura together form Laboratory of the future.
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SciLifeLab
SciLifeLab
This is a national node of unique core-facilities, technologies and expertise available to life scientists, closely intertwined with a community of researchers in biomedicine, ecology and evolution. SciLifeLab is located near by KI Campus Solna, and KI is also one of four universitites involved in the managment. During the pandemic, resources are focused on COVID-19.
Grants Office
Grants Office
Aula Medica – conference service
Aula Medica – conference service
Comparative Medicine
Comparative Medicine
University Library (KIB)
University Library (KIB)
International collaboration
International collaboration
Support for visiting researchers
Support for visiting researchers
KI Career Service
KI Career Service
Innovation support
Innovation support
Selected news
KI participates in the construction of a vaccine network in the EU
KI participates in the construction of a vaccine network in the EU
KI and Karolinska University Hospital are contributing to a new network (VACCELERATE) for the evaluation and testing of new vaccines. Responsible for KI is Christian Giske and Matti Sällberg at the Department of Laboratory Medicine.
New core facility offers world class imaging technique
New core facility offers world class imaging technique
In the basement of Wargentin House on Solna campus there are several cryo-electron microscopes of the latest models, that can be used by both KI researchers and external customers. Read an interview with Martin Hällberg, director of the new 3D-EM facility.
New Centre of Excellence at KI for treatment of cancer
New Centre of Excellence at KI for treatment of cancer
Karolinska Institutet has been granted funding from Sweden's innovation agency Vinnova to start a new centre of excellence. The centre will focus on developing next-generation immunotherapy based on NK-cells for the treatment of cancer.
The first projects to start at MedTechLabs
The first projects to start at MedTechLabs
MedTechLabs is a close collaboration between KI, the Royal Institute of Technology KTH, and Stockholm Region. The objective of one of the first projects is to develop technology to improve diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients.
KI establishes research centre in Hong Kong
KI establishes research centre in Hong Kong
Karolinska Institutet’s first overseas branch – the Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine in Hong Kong – opened in 2016. Read more at KI News.