As part of the Norman Centre of Excellence, two complementary imagery platforms have been set up in concerted fashion: a research platform in cellular imagery in Rouen and an in vivo imagery platform in Caen. These two platforms have been approved as operational research platforms by the Inter-Organisational Assembly (RIO) (ECA, CNRS, INRA and INSERM).

The regional cellular imagery research platform of Haute-Normandie, which was primarily developed by two founder teams of the IFRMP 23 (U413 and UMR 6037), is equipped with a common electronic microscopy service, 4 laser scanning confocal microscopes, including a high-speed microscope and a multiphotonic microscope, 4 dynamic microscopy workstations, 3 image analysis workstations, 2 phosphorimagers, a laser microdissector, a FlexStation robot, and a biomolecule synthesis department (worth some EUR 4 million in all). The INSERM has allocated one Research Engineer and two Design Engineers to ensure the operation and the management of the research platform. In addition, a University Design Engineer has been allocated to the image analysers, and a CNRS Technician has been allocated to the common electronic microscopy department.

The regional cellular imagery research platform of Haute-Normandie is used not only by the teams of the IFRMP 23 but also by many outside French and foreign teams, some of which work for private companies.

As part of the Norman Centre of Excellence, the regional cellular imagery research platform of Haute-Normandie and the in vivo imagery research platform in Basse-Normandie have decided to combine in order to set up an imagery pole of European scope and scale.