Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IOM) Materials Foundry is an interdisciplinary research Institute of the National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR) that carries out research in the fields of condensed matter physics, nanoscience, and biophysics.

The BioMed division of IOM applies to biology and medicine those methodologies, materials and instrumentation usually employed in physics and chemistry. The BioMed division in particular investigates the physical interaction and the dynamics of single cells, as well as of single subcellular structures down to the biomolecular level. To that purpose, it is possible to take advantage of existing expertise in optical microscopy, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, material science and micro and nanofabrication.

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