This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) provides $749,999.00 to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to acquire a LUMICKS C-TRAP single-molecule analysis system. The C-TRAP instrument integrates optical tweezers, confocal fluorescence microscopy, and microfluidics to enable cutting-edge single-molecule studies across multiple interdisciplinary research projects at Penn...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $1,048,299 Project Grant under the Biomedical Research and Research Training (CFDA 93.859) federal grant program to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF-SUNY) on August 1, 2025. The funding will support the acquisition of a LUMICKS C-TRAP correlative force and fluorescence optical tweezer system, which will enable real-time observation, monitoring, and quantitation of interactions between...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) awarded a $344,118 Project Grant (CFDA 93.351) to Michigan Technological University on May 15, 2025. The grant will fund the acquisition of an Asylum Research MFP-3D-Bio Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) integrated with an Olympus IX73 inverted fluorescent microscope. This "Bio-AFM" system will enable Michigan Tech researchers to study cell movement, cancer metastasis, cell metabolism, and viral...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $942,983 to acquire a Bruker Luxendo TruLive3D light-sheet microscope system. The award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025, will enable rapid 3D volumetric imaging of live specimens such as mouse, fly, and zebrafish embryos with high resolution and minimal phototoxicity. This advanced microscope system will benefit a user group of...
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 This specialized microscope system will replace the university's outdated microscopy capabilities and enable advanced imaging techniques to support diverse biomedical research...
This Project Grant award of $630,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will support the development of an advanced optical microscopy system at the University of New Mexico (UNM). The system will combine two recent breakthroughs in imaging techniques - MINFLUX and modal imaging - to enable unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution for studying protein interactions and oligomerization kinetics on living cell membranes. The research will focus...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training federal grant program (CFDA 93.859), provides $410,014 to establish proof-of-concept for a new high-speed, real-time feedback-driven single particle tracking (RT-FD-SPT) fluorescence microscope with concurrent spectroscopic readout. The project aims to develop advanced instrumentation and techniques to study the spatiotemporal dynamics of activated...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351 - Research Infrastructure Programs) provides $405,777 to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) to acquire a new Nanowizard V atomic force microscope (AFM) system. The award will replace UTHealth's outdated 17-year-old AFM, enabling enhanced research capabilities in biomedical sciences across 11 investigators and multiple institutions in the...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $466,187 to the University of Portland (UP) to acquire a spinning-disk confocal microscope. The microscope will enable enhanced cell and molecular biology research and undergraduate teaching and training at UP and Lewis & Clark College. The award supports research programs investigating biological mechanisms such as developmental asymmetry, cardiac development, and the...
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 of $1 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) under CFDA 93.351 will fund the acquisition of a LUMICKS C-TRAP instrument at the University of Minnesota. The C-TRAP is a commercially available laser optical trap that combines total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy and integrated microfluidics, enabling advanced single-molecule force, position, and fluorescence studies. This instrumentation will significantly enhance the NIH-funded research programs of five major users and eight minor users across multiple colleges and departments at the University of Minnesota, advancing their work on important biomedical questions in areas such as cell mechanobiology, muscular dystrophy, cytoskeletal dynamics, viral assembly, and nucleic acid processing. The award period is August 1, 2025 to July 1, 2026.