The COMULIS Society was founded in September 2023 as one of the key networking efforts of the COMULISglobe Correlative Multimodal Imaging project funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
In order to consolidate and extend a collaborative and innovative network that promotes correlative multimodal imaging and analysis across scales from biological research to clinical diagnostics and establish a global multimodal imaging society to ensure long-term sustainability. Correlative imaging integrates the best features of combined techniques and overcomes limitations faced when applying single modalities independently. This relies on the joint expertise of biologists, physicists, clinicians, and computer scientists, and depends on coordinated activities and knowledge transfer between technology developers and users.
To achieve this inherently interdisciplinary goal, it is indispensable to establish a network of scientists across continents and disciplines, from academia and industry, including transnational research facilities (e.g. synchrotrons, Euro-BioImaging-ERIC), to foster and market correlative multimodal imaging as a versatile tool in biomedical research and diagnostics.
We have founded the COMULIS Society in order to achieve these goals and are currently organizing multiple opportunities for global networking such as showcase projects, Training schools, conferences and symposia, Mobility Grants for Training Schools, Lab Exchanges or Synchrotron travel grants, an open call for Correlative Multimodal Imaging Projects at Euro-BioImaging Nodes or software development and the registration challenge.
