This $374,399 Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859) supports the development of innovative two-photon microscopy systems with scattering correction capabilities for deep tissue imaging. The University of California, Davis aims to develop high-speed, high-efficiency light modulation hardware and deep learning-based algorithms to optimize light propagation through scattering biological...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351 - Research Infrastructure Programs) provides $884,837 to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to purchase a Leica Stellaris 8 (LS8) confocal microscope. The new microscope will replace UCSC's aging confocal microscope and enhance the imaging capabilities of the university's Life Sciences Microscopy Center core facility. The LS8 confocal microscope will...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $749,227 to the Trustees of Boston University to acquire a state-of-the-art three-photon microscopy system. The instrument will constitute a shared facility within the university's Neurophotonics Center, enabling NIH-funded investigators to conduct deep brain imaging and study neuronal circuit function, disease progression, and treatment for neuropsychiatric and...
This $750,000 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will fund the acquisition of a Leica Stellaris 8 DIVE multiphoton microscope system for the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine Microscopy Core. The new microscope will fill a critical gap in the core's instrumentation portfolio, enabling UCSD researchers to advance their NIH-funded biomedical research across a...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859) provides $1,444,500.00 to The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) from September 2, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The grant supports new strategies to extend a single-molecule cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) imaging technique called 2D template matching (2DTM) to detect and characterize smaller macromolecular...
The University of Maryland, Baltimore was awarded a $1,799,728.98 Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Office of the Director to purchase a state-of-the-art light sheet fluorescence microscope. The microscope will be situated in the university's established Confocal Core Facility, which will oversee use, training, and service of the instrument for nine NIH-funded research teams. Light sheet fluorescence microscopy is well-suited for...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859) provided $224,388 to the California State University Long Beach Research Foundation to acquire an Echo confocal microscope. The microscope will enable high-resolution 3D imaging of biological and biomedical samples, supporting faculty research projects in areas such as 3D biomaterials, microfluidics, and pancreas tissue/organoid...
This $635,689 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (CFDA 93.351 - Research Infrastructure Programs) will provide funding to The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) to acquire a state-of-the-art ZEISS LSM 980 confocal microscope with Airyscan 2 technology. This new advanced imaging instrument will upgrade UTHSCSA's Optical Imaging Core Facility, which supports over 80 NIH-funded research projects across diverse biomedical disciplines. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $249,747 to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) to acquire a Zeiss LSM 900 fluorescence confocal microscope. The new microscope system will support the research efforts of multiple NIH-funded investigators at VCU by enabling advanced 3D imaging of cell cultures and tissue samples across multiple scales, from cell populations to subcellular structures. This...
This $1,386,474 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) supports the acquisition of a Femtonics Atlas microscope at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, Texas. The advanced two-photon microscope system will enable rapid, high-resolution 3D imaging of neuronal activity using calcium, voltage, and neurotransmitter reporters. The award will allow BCM researchers to track activity in complex 3D neuronal and...
This federal Project Grant award of $942,983 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will fund the acquisition of a Bruker Luxendo TruLive3D light-sheet microscope system at the University of California, Berkeley. This advanced imaging system will enable high-speed, high-resolution 3D volumetric imaging of live, delicate biological specimens such as mouse, fly, and zebrafish embryos, as well as organoids. The TruLive3D's unique design features dual-sided illumination and single-lens detection, allowing for fast, gentle imaging with minimal phototoxicity. This award will greatly enhance the research capabilities of a diverse user group of developmental biologists, cell biologists, and molecular biologists at UC Berkeley, enabling them to better define and characterize novel cellular processes across various developmental and physiological contexts. The award period runs from Sep 1, 2024 to Aug 31, 2025.