Sydney Imaging’s mission is to enable biomedical research excellence by providing advanced imaging capabilities, expert advice, and a collaborative research environment. We aim to enhance the University of Sydney’s position as a global leader in biomedical imaging by advancing translational research, delivering specialised training, and fostering strategic partnerships with academia and industry.

Through our open-access research facilities, Sydney Imaging delivers:

• State-of-the-art imaging capabilities: Access to a range of advanced imaging equipment and supporting capabilities, spanning preclinical imaging, clinical imaging, hybrid operating theatre, radiochemistry, and imaging informatics.
• Expert advice: To provide leadership and assistance for designing protocols and imaging experiments and advising on analysis and interpretation of imaging data to ensure high-quality research outcomes.
• Collaborative gain: To promote and facilitate collaborative gain between the University’s research partners and stakeholders, while serving as a ‘research hub’ to coordinate, integrate, and facilitate collaboration.
• Global recognition: To support cutting-edge research to position Sydney Imaging as the preferred partner for internal, external, national and international researchers in the biomedical imaging domain.
• Training: To contribute to the training of junior researchers, as well as providing opportunities for skill development to enhance the biomedical imaging expertise in Australia.
• National networks: To support multi-site studies and foster engagement with other imaging research facilities through the Australian National Imaging Facility (NIF).
• Industry partnerships: To enable productive and collaborative partnerships with industry.
• Imaging informatics: To contribute expertise and leadership in imaging informatics through the NIF Australian Imaging Service, and to drive excellence in imaging by providing secure data management, analysis, informatics, and machine learning capabilities for research.

Our experts help you get the most from our state–of-the-art equipment and techniques.

• Leadership
• Preclinical Imaging staff
• Hybrid Theatre staff
• National Imaging Facility Fellows
• Administrative staff

Recognition of the contribution that core facility staff make to research is vital to the continuation of those facilities and the career progression of individuals.  Facility staff are highly skilled scientists who contribute technically and intellectually to research projects.  It is therefore important to acknowledge them properly in publications and presentations.