EAST-NMR - Enhancing Access and Services to East European users Towards an efficient and coordinated Pan-European pool of NMR capacities to enable global collaborative research & boost technological advancements

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a key technology for research in the modern Life Sciences, with an increasing impact on human health. This technology is unique in new areas of molecular systems biology providing detailed insight into protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions.

EAST-NMR consortium comprises 21 academic and industrial partners working together to achieve a Pan-European pool of NMR capacities. Eight NMR Research Infrastructures (partners 1-8) will make the necessary transnational access possible (especially to solid-state NMR) for research groups in Eastern Europe.

Transnational access to NMR is devoted to outreach to new users, both those in Eastern-Europe, and those who will benefit from state-of-the-art technology in solid-state NMR.

Applications for gaining access to EAST-NMR Research Infrastructures (RIs) can be submitted continuously through an online proposal management system by filling in the ONLINE ACCESS FORM.

Travel to and accommodation at the RIs will be reimbursed.

Representatives of facilities offering transnational access meet regularly. The testing samples and protocols for liquid-state NMR studies have been discussed and agreed. The following good practices on organizing the visits within transnational access and benchmarking have been established.