AXIA is funded through a Research Infrastructure Grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

With this grant, we have been able to purchase a state-of-the-art X-ray microscope and an in vivo µCT system as well as an optical microscope, high-performance computers for data analysis and visualization and hiring of associated personnel. 

This new equipment in combination with existing instrumentation owned by the AXIA core team will allow AXIA to bridge fundamental ultra-high resolution studies of bone through small animal experiments to clinical science.