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 $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...
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 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 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 Institutes of Health (NIH) 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 fully supported. The Leica Stellaris...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $582,025 awarded September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2023 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund the acquisition of a laser-scanning confocal microscope for research and training at California State University, Chico. The confocal microscope will enhance undergraduate and graduate education in multiple life sciences disciplines such as cellular science, microbiology, genetics, and developmental biology by enabling in-depth...
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 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 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...