About the Nikon Imaging Center at UC San Diego

The Nikon Imaging Center (NIC) at the University of California San Diego is a light microscopy core facility and recently opened in September 2018. Our NIC is a private-public partnership between Nikon Instruments Incorporated and the University of California San Diego. Currently, there are nine Nikon Imaging Centers worldwide: Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (NIC@IIT), Harvard Medical School (NIC@HMS), Hokkaido University (NIC@HU), Institut Curie (NIMCE), King's College London (NIC@King's), Northwestern University (NIC@NU), Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (NIC@SBIC), University of Heidelberg (NIC@HD), and University of California San Diego (NIC@UCSD). Nikon Instruments Incorporated has donated five cutting-edge microscope systems to our center to facilitate local research. We’re welcoming researchers from UC San Diego and the greater San Diego research community.