This $884,837 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will fund the acquisition of a Leica Stellaris 8 (LS8) confocal laser scanning microscope for the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). The new microscope will replace an aging 16-year-old confocal microscope and enhance the research capabilities of 13 investigators across 4 departments and 2 academic divisions at UCSC. The LS8 microscope will provide advanced...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859) provides $194,590 to Texas State University to acquire a ZEISS AXIO OBSERVER 7 wide-field fluorescence microscope with APOTOME-3 and live-cell imaging capabilities. The microscope will be housed in the university's Shared Resource Operations and will directly strengthen the research programs of three NIH-supported investigators in the Department...
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, enabling advanced 3D imaging of cell cultures and tissue samples. The award will address the increasing demand for high-speed, high-resolution...
This $1,197,188 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will fund the procurement of an Aberrior Facility Line Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) super-resolution microscope system. The microscope will be housed at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and will provide high-resolution 3D nanoscopy imaging capabilities to support the research of 13 NIH-funded scientists across...
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 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...
The University of Michigan was awarded a $1.8 million project grant from the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director under the Research Infrastructure Programs federal grant program to purchase a Leica SP8 confocal microscope. The microscope will support over 30 investigators at the University engaged in diabetes, vision, and retinal research by replacing two aging microscopes in the university's shared imaging facility. The new microscope will provide high-speed resonant scanning...
This Project Grant award of $738,752 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will fund the acquisition of an Evident Scientific (Olympus) SPINSR super-resolution spinning disk confocal microscope for the University of Colorado Boulder. This high-performance microscope will replace the university's outdated spinning disk and super-resolution imaging systems, enabling advanced live-cell and fixed-sample imaging capabilities that are essential for...
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) was awarded a $405,777 Project Grant under the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351). The grant will support the acquisition of a Nanowizard V Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) to enhance biomedical research capabilities at UTHealth's Atomic Force Microscopy Core Facility. The new state-of-the-art AFM system will replace an obsolete 17-year-old microscope, enabling advanced applications...
This $224,388 Project Grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859) will fund the acquisition of an Echo Confocal Microscope at California State University, Long Beach. The instrument will provide high-resolution 3D imaging capabilities to support various biological and biomedical research applications, including the development of 3D biomaterials, microfluidics, and pancreas tissue/organoid research. The...