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SwedNMR offers NMR expertise and spectrometer time to academics and industry. The distributed research infrastructure, located with nodes at nine Swedish universities, offers project support (guide to sample preparation and experimental setups, implementation of new pulse programs, spectrometer access and analysis) in both liquid and solid state NMR, including DNP-NMR. For specific research questions, feel free to contact Cecilia Persson (biological NMR), Aleksander Jaworski (materials NMR) or Tobias Sparrman (metabolomics) prior to submitting your applicaitons. Applications are reviewed by these three persons and forwarded to the node responsible at the preferred or most suitable node.
Application form for SwedNMR projects
For questions about the application form, please contact Anders Bay Nord. NB! On windows, use Firefox if possible – Edge or Chrome is a hit-and-miss with sending in the form below.
Submission of access form
After signing the user agreement, you will be contacted by SwedNMR staff to discuss scheduling of instrument time, discussion of support needed etc. for the case this has not already been discussed. After form submission, you should receive a confirmation mail stating that your project application request has been registered.
Project evaluation
Academic projects are accepted after evaluation of scientific quality and feasibility. Subsidized user fees apply. Industrial projects are accepted without evaluation. A full cost model is applied. All applications must include a risk assessment.
Acknowledgement phrase
Acknowledge SwedNMR in publications by the use of “This project was supported by SwedNMR, funded by the Swedish Research Council grant 2021-00167 and ("other relevant project support”)”.
Support is offered on different levels
Access: User operates spectrometer or uses a ‘walk up machine’
Service: SwedNMR staff performs measurements after discussion/instructions from user and provides basic support and data in raw or processed format.
Collaboration: The project is on a collaborative basis, including advanced experimental support such as design of new experimental methodology or pulse programs or analysis of NMR data by SwedNMR personnel,
Metabolomics: Final sample preparation and data acquisition is performed by SwedNMR personnel, degree of analysis or possible collaboration is discussed at project start
Associated costs
Costs apply for both usage of spectrometers as well as personnel.
Metabolomics projects have a cost model that is based on a per sample fee. Specific details can be found at the home page of each access node.
FBS projects are performed together with CBCS, fixed fees is added for screening campaigns using fragment libraries supplied by the CBCS.
For other projects, costs apply for usage of spectrometers and for personnel (both an hourly fee) and for consumables. Different rates apply for academia and industry
Academic projects granted measurement time also includes 10h of personnel time (40h for collaborative metabolomics projects) to cover administrative work, communication, sample handling, data processing and possible data analysis. In collaborative projects, the cost model is defined per project, and for service projects, there is an hourly fee when more than 10 hours are needed.
Projects initiated from industry includes 4 hours to cover the administrative work, communication and simple sample handling.
User fees
For other university nodes, contact the node responsible.
Cancellation policy
Bookings of spectrometer time are always made in dialogue with each user after approval of a project application AND signing a user agreement. We will of course try our best to reschedule bookings or make the time available to new users. Please let us know if there is a high chance that your sample might not be present for the day of your booking.