Ten SciLifeLab visits to EMBL to be funded in the 2025 exchange call

The SciLifeLab and EMBL joint Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) makes it possible for SciLifeLab researchers and infrastructure staff to connect with colleagues at EMBL through short visits. This year, we received a record number of applications. This means that, in 2025, more than ten SciLifeLab researchers or infrastructure staff scientists will visit EMBL.

These annual calls have been running since 2022, giving researchers and staff across SciLifeLab the chance to spend time at EMBL. The program is open to PhD students and postdocs working in SciLifeLab-associated groups, Group Leaders themselves, and infrastructure staff scientists. The more than 20 approved visits have enabled scientists at six different Swedish universities to visit EMBL sites in Heidelberg and Hamburg (Germany), Hinxton (England), and Rome (Italy).

The exchange visits have involved hands-on work, like using MINFLUX microscopy, spatial single-cell metabolomics and MALDI approaches in combination with immunofluorescence-based proteomics. As well as internships at the EMBL imaging facility in Heidelberg. Some of the exchange visits was also combined with participation in EMBL workshops, conferences or courses. 

Previous visits

• The value of a scientific meet-up: Yuvarani Masarapu, a SciLifeLab PhD fellow, spent a week with EMBL collaborators
• 2024 visit – Report: SciLifeLab researchers visit EMBL
• 2023 visit – SciLifeLab researchers visit EMBL
• 2022 visit – Travel grants for promoting SciLifeLab collaboration with EMBL

The 2025 call will fund ten EMBL visits

Josefin Lundgren Gawell and Disa Hammarlöf, who coordinate the collaboration, are excited about the number of applications:
“We’re excited to have had more applications than ever this last call. This is a concrete way to support knowledge exchange between SciLifeLab and EMBL.”