The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $1,217,078 Project Grant under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) to The General Hospital Corporation (doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital) to record neural activity in the intact human brain to better understand tumor infiltration. The project will utilize cutting-edge high-resolution microelectrodes, including 1,000-channel thin-film...
This federal Project Grant award of $629,031.00 was provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program. The grant supports research to develop a novel optical imaging technique called Optical Cell State Imaging (OCSI) that can track neural stem cell activation state in living cells without exogenous labeling. The key products and services to be delivered...
This $195,896 Project Grant, awarded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, supports research to define the circuit connectivity between glioblastoma, a fatal brain cancer, and diverse neuronal populations in the mouse brain. The research aims to elucidate the role of cholinergic neuromodulatory inputs in regulating glioma progression, with the goal of...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), through its Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853), awarded a $578,701 project grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on June 16, 2025. The goal of this 5-year project is to develop a near-infrared confocal squeezed light-field microscopy (SLIM) system capable of kilohertz volumetric imaging of neuronal action potentials in 3D. This technology is intended to...
This $538,523 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) supports the development of an innovative imaging and computational platform for integrated analysis of biodata. The platform aims to enable rapid and unbiased analysis of entire organs at subcellular resolution, with a focus on studying glial cell development in the mouse forebrain. The...
The federal Project Grant award of $621,500 was provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program. The goal of the project is to develop new methods for combined molecular and ultrastructural imaging of neural cells and tissues using advanced nanoprobes and cathodoluminescent dyes. Specifically, the award will fund the development of (1) detergent-free...
The University of North Dakota was awarded a $419,038 Project Grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) federal grant program. The grant, which runs from September 17, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will fund the development of a miniature selective plane illumination fluorescence microscope for high-resolution volumetric imaging in freely behaving mice. This...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, aims to engineer a miniaturized ultra-widefield micro-camera array microscope (MCAM) capable of imaging a large area of the cerebellar cortex with cellular resolution in freely behaving mice. The $183,751 award, with a project period from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2027, will...
This $498,995 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program supports the development of a highly parallelized interferometric near-infrared spectroscopy (INIRS) platform for the real-time, non-invasive measurement of cerebral blood flow. The research aims to address the limitations of current stroke diagnosis and monitoring techniques...
This federal Project Grant award of $294,729 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program will fund the development of a versatile and compact telerobot with haptic feedback and physics-informed simulation for safety-enhanced neurovascular interventions. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Developing full actuation, coordinated control...