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MPI's new Imaging Center is set to open in Spring 2014 at the company's headquarters in Michigan.
MPI Research
, in partnership with INVICRO and 3D Imaging, held the groundbreaking for its new Imaging Center, which is set to open in Spring 2014 at the MPI Research corporate headquarters in Mattawan, Michigan. Pharmaceutical researchers will have access to a cyclotron facility directly connected to vivarium, permitting drug radiolabeling and in-depth studies across a variety of animal models.
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, two-story imaging center is the latest joint effort between MPI, INVICRO, and 3D Imaging, which have collaborated on more than 100 imaging projects to date. The multimillion-dollar project will include INVICRO’s molecular imaging informatics team and 3D Imaging’s radiopharmaceutical group.
Many of the expanded imaging solutions, including nonhuman primate PET and CT imaging capabilities, became available in July 2013.
