Thanks to the support of UNICAS, I was able to create cancer tissue microarrays, a highly valuable source of research material. This enabled me to generate high quality data since the start of the project in 2017 and continues to do so now! It was during one of the sandpit events when I met a colleague who shared with me the contact details of researchers who have the required facilities to create such microarrays. Back then, I definitely did not expect that I would be in the fortunate position to have this excellent research material readily available on my desk right now!
UNICAS gave me the opportunity to invest time and money into the new and fast growing field of digital pathology. Starting from zero, the use of an appropriate software was a big step for me to enter this promising field. It is fair to say that my experience with this software has convinced me to follow a research career in this area and this was all made possible thanks to UNICAS. In a team of internal and external researchers, which I am pleased to say continues to grow, we have so far managed to publish three studies, with one more currently under review and with plenty of data which is ready to be published soon. Thanks to UNICAS, this project continues to generate more and more data week by week, meaning the amount of publishable material is growing in an almost exponential way!