This $348,583 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) will provide a Nikon CSU-W1 spinning disk confocal microscope system to Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. The new high-resolution, high-speed imaging system will support diverse biomedical research projects by NIH-funded investigators at the college, including studies on neuronal structures, cell mechanics,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $590,000 to the University of Miami to acquire a Leica Stellaris 5 upright confocal microscope. The new microscope will replace an obsolete, end-of-life confocal system and continue to provide high-resolution intravital imaging capabilities to support the NIH-funded research of 9 major user groups across 5 departments at the university. The advanced Stellaris...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351 - Research Infrastructure Programs) provides $1,769,674 to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to purchase a Leica Stellaris 8 (LS8) confocal microscope. The LS8 will replace UCSC's aging 16-year-old confocal microscope and enhance the imaging capabilities of its Life Sciences Microscopy Center core facility. The new microscope will support NIH-funded...
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 Regents of the University of Colorado to acquire a high-performance super-resolution spinning disk confocal microscope. This specialized microscope system will replace the university's outdated microscopy capabilities and enable advanced imaging techniques to support diverse biomedical research...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $249,575 Project Grant under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) to the University Enterprises, Inc. (UEI) at California State University, Sacramento. The grant will fund the acquisition of a Zeiss LSM 900 confocal laser scanning microscope to support the research programs of three principal investigators, Drs. Monica Gonzalez, Kimberly Mulligan, and Sharon Furtak, who study the cellular and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $872,734 to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), to acquire a Leica Stellaris 8 Falcon confocal microscope. The new microscope will modernize the imaging platform at MGH's Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases (CIID), replacing an aging confocal microscope that is no longer...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $291,224 Project Grant (CFDA 93.859 - Biomedical Research and Research Training) to the University of Chicago to develop BRAVE-EM, a novel imaging technique that combines the wavelength specificity of optical light microscopy with the spatial resolution and volume imaging capabilities of electron microscopy. This 5-year research program, starting on August 15, 2024, seeks to enable simultaneous functional and structural imaging...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will provide $1,197,188 to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) to procure an Aberrior Facility Line Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) super-resolution microscope system. This cutting-edge equipment will bolster the research efforts of 13 NIH-funded scientists at UTHealth and MD Anderson Cancer Center, enabling nanoscale 3D imaging...
This $390,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) will support the development of a multiparametric fluorescence microscopy framework to correlate metabolic changes with cellular manipulations and physical/biophysical properties. The award, granted to Georgetown University, will establish a seamless workflow to quantify and correlate fundamental cellular interactions, such as...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $290,536 Project Grant (CFDA 93.859 - Biomedical Research and Research Training) to Trestle Optics LLC, a small disadvantaged business, to develop a novel high numerical aperture catadioptric lens for ultra-broadband multimodal microscopy. This lens will enable advancements in existing nonlinear optical imaging modalities, such as three-photon excited fluorescence and third-harmonic generation, by overcoming limitations of...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $1,085,690 Project Grant under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) to The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. (MCW) to purchase an Abberior 3D-STED super-resolution microscope. This high-end imaging system will be installed at MCW's Advanced Cell Imaging Core and will support the research of 14 well-funded NIH investigators across diverse biomedical fields such as cell biology, neuroscience, and cancer. The STED microscope will enable these researchers to visualize and analyze nanoscale cellular structures and dynamics that are critical to understanding human health and disease. This instrumentation award, with a performance period from September 2024 to August 2025, will significantly advance the NIH-funded research programs at MCW and other regional institutions by providing access to state-of-the-art super-resolution imaging capabilities.