The Optics and Imaging Centre (OIC) is a biomedical core research microscopy facility within the College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal. The OIC is located on the second floor, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine Campus. We provide imaging and image analysis technologies to help medical researchers understand biological structure and function relationships of cells and tissues relevant to normal and disease conditions. The services of the OIC are also available to researchers from other tertiary institutions nationally and internationally.