This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $749,227 to Trustees of Boston University to acquire a state-of-the-art three-photon microscopy system. The system will enable NIH-funded investigators at Boston University to conduct advanced in vivo imaging of deep brain structure and function, which is essential for studying normal and pathological brain activity, including neuropsychiatric and...
This $573,147 National Science Foundation Project Grant through the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund the acquisition of a Zeiss LSM 900 confocal microscope with Airyscan for Queens College of the City University of New York's Core Facility for Imaging, Cell, and Molecular Biology. The microscope will enhance multidisciplinary research and training at the minority-serving institution by enabling new microscopy courses and outreach activities promoting STEM access for...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351 - Research Infrastructure Programs) provides $738,752 to the University of Colorado to purchase a high-performance super-resolution spinning disk confocal microscope. This specialized scientific equipment will replace and update the university's obsolete technology, enabling advanced live-cell and fixed-sample imaging capabilities that support the research of 12...
This federal Project Grant award of $551,957 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides funding to the University of Scranton to acquire an Olympus Fluoview FV4000 inverted confocal microscope system. This microscope will be integrated into the university's upper-level biology courses and made accessible to faculty at other local universities to enhance research and training capabilities in multiple biological fields, including cellular...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $466,187 to the University of Portland (UP) to acquire a spinning-disk confocal microscope. The microscope will enable enhanced cell and molecular biology research and undergraduate teaching and training at UP and Lewis & Clark College. The award supports research programs investigating biological mechanisms such as developmental asymmetry, cardiac development, and the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Project Grant award of $848,348 provides funding to the University of Iowa to acquire a Nikon CSU W1 SORA super-resolution spinning disc confocal microscope system. This advanced imaging system will enable long-term, high-resolution live imaging to support critical biological research across multiple disciplines, including evolution, development, cell biology, neurobiology, and genetics. The SORA microscope will serve...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded Brandeis University a 3-year, $1,767,282 Project Grant to acquire a Thermo-Fisher Tundra cryo-electron microscope. This advanced microscope will enable visualization and analysis of complex biological structures at the macromolecular level, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration across fields from materials science to cell biology. The microscope will be available to researchers at Brandeis and in the local region,...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $499,553 Project Grant to Grinnell College under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to acquire a laser scanning confocal microscope. The microscope will support research and teaching activities in biology, biochemistry, chemistry, and physics at Grinnell College from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. Specifically, the microscope will be used to study synaptic plasticity, detect microtubule formation below the diffraction limit of...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), provides $348,583 to Providence College in Providence, RI to purchase a Nikon CSU-W1 spinning disk confocal microscope system. This state-of-the-art imaging system will support diverse biomedical research projects of the college's NIH-funded investigators, including studies on structural changes in neurons, cell size and...
This Project Grant award of $249,747 from the National Institutes of Health's Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will fund the acquisition of a Zeiss LSM 900 fluorescence confocal microscope for the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Microscopy Shared Resource (MSR) facility. The new microscope system will support the advanced imaging needs of multiple NIH-funded investigators at VCU, enabling high-speed, multicolor 3D visualization of cell cultures and tissue samples...