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 $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...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.083 - Integrative Activities) provides $549,754 to Georgetown University to acquire a state-of-the-art 3-dimensional nanolithography instrument. The instrument will enable a broad range of advanced materials research projects with potential technological impacts in areas such as information storage, nanoelectronics, filtration, biomimetics, and metamaterials. The shared instrument will support research and educational...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $1,600,000 Project Grant under the Biomedical Research and Research Training (CFDA 93.859) program to Saint Louis University. The grant will fund the purchase of a high-sensitivity Bruker Q-band ELEXSYS E580 Pulse EPR Spectrometer to enable structural dynamics studies of proteins and their complexes, as well as the training of students and researchers. The instrument will support basic research projects from NIH-funded...
This Project Grant award of $288,211, provided by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training (CFDA 93.859) program, will fund the purchase of a Refeyn TwoMP Mass Photometer with MassFluidix Microfluidic High Concentration (HC) Technology for the Macromolecular Structure Knowledge Center (MSKC) at Stanford University. This state-of-the-art instrument will enable rapid characterization of proteins and nucleic acids at the...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859) provides $295,561 to Biosensing Instrument Inc. to develop a commercial prototype of their Plasmonic Scattering Microscopy (PSM) technology. The PSM system aims to enable high-throughput, label-free quantification of membrane protein binding kinetics on single cells in their native cellular microenvironment. This represents a...
This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under CFDA 93.859 Biomedical Research and Research Training program will support the acquisition of a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS) instrument at Indiana State University. The instrument will be used to conduct biomedically relevant research and provide teaching experiences across disciplines including chemistry, biology, and environmental science. Key projects supported by the award...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859), provides $446,239 to Georgetown University to conduct a systematic study on encapsulating small molecules into polymer nanoparticles using the flash nanoprecipitation method. The goal is to develop a predictive model for determining the optimal processing conditions and excipients needed to effectively encapsulate active...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859), awarded a $1,469,739 Project Grant to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to purchase a TIMSTOF-FLEX MALDI-2 high-resolution mass spectrometer. This advanced instrumentation will support biomedical research projects across 12 laboratories from CUNY and nearby institutions, focusing on areas such as conformational dynamics of...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $1,979,999 Project Grant under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) to The New York Structural Biology Center, Inc. (NYSBC). The funding will be used to acquire a Bruker BioSpin Fast Shuttle System (FSS) apparatus to be installed on an existing 700 MHz NMR spectrometer at NYSBC. The FSS apparatus is a technological breakthrough that enables measurements of spin-lattice relaxation rate constants in...