Facilities

A key strength of MolSys is its very up to date and complementary infrastructure. This infrastructure is foreseen as the starting point of an Institutional Instrumentation Platform to be hosted in a future new Chemistry building, specially designed to meet the requirement linked to quality management. A National Investment plan has been announced and workgroups are currently preparing an investment strategy, including funds for a new Chemistry building as well as for maintaining up-to-date instruments.

Within MolSys, founding laboratories manage their infrastructure either independently or grouped by techniques.  The members of the RU also participate to interfaculty platforms (CREMAN, CAREM, GIGA Proteomics).

Four laboratories merged their expertise and their instrumentations in a Mass Spectrometry platform, the CART. The CART was founded in 1999 following the major "dioxin" crisis affecting the food chain, which has had a major impact on Belgian exports. The challenge was to set up an accredited laboratory to provide authorities and companies with a reliable control service for complex analysis. CART has taken up this challenge and has been awarded the title of Belgian reference laboratory for the European Union. It is therefore involved in European meetings concerning the establishment of standards and methods of analysis. Following the results of the laboratory's research and their translation into analytical methods, the members of the laboratory participated in the elaboration of the methodological recommendations not only at European level but also for the EPA (environmental protection agency, USA).