The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $749,854 Project Grant under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to Albany Medical College to acquire an Olympus FVMPE-RS multiphoton microscope. This specialized microscope will enable intravital imaging capabilities to support advanced biomedical research across multiple NIH-funded investigators at Albany Medical College and other institutions in the Albany Capital District. The instrument will allow for high-resolution,...
This $199,998 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Biological Infrastructure, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will fund Montana Technological University to acquire, maintain, and operate an Hitachi HT7800 electron microscope. The microscope will advance interdisciplinary research, education, and outreach in biology, chemistry, geochemistry, mechanical engineering, environmental engineering, and geology. It will strengthen PhD programs in materials...
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...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to the University of Colorado-Denver's Human Immune Monitoring Shared Resource (HIMSR) core facility. The grant will fund the acquisition of a Lunaphore Comet high-parameter fluorescence imaging platform to enhance the center's multiplex immunohistochemistry (MIHC) tissue imaging capabilities. This instrumentation will provide HIMSR's approximately 100 annual users...
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 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $392,500 to Mainehealth, a non-profit healthcare system in Portland, Maine, to purchase a Bruker SkyScan1276 CMOS in vivo microCT imaging system. The new microCT scanner will replace aging equipment in the organization's Small Animal Imaging Facility, a core research resource that supports over 15 major and 3 minor NIH-funded research projects across various...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $450,173 Project Grant under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to Seattle Children's Hospital, doing business as Seattle Children's Research Institute, to establish a new light-sheet microscopy imaging facility. This facility will support a diverse portfolio of biomedical research projects led by 13 major and 4 minor users across the Seattle area, who are supported by 24 NIH grants as well as other federal and foundation funding....
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $738,752 Project Grant under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) to purchase an Evident Scientific (Olympus) SPINSR super-resolution spinning disk confocal microscope. This high-performance shared resource microscope will replace CU's obsolete technology and provide advanced live-cell and fixed-sample imaging capabilities not available on their current structured illumination...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. This grant will fund the acquisition of a state-of-the-art 7.0 Tesla preclinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner, the Bruker BioSpec 70/20. This advanced imaging system will significantly enhance Mayo Clinic's research capabilities by enabling sophisticated quantitative techniques, such as high-resolution diffusion...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $344,118 to Michigan Technological University to acquire an Asylum Research MFP-3D-BIO Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) integrated with an Olympus IX73 inverted fluorescent microscope. This "Bio-AFM" system will enable researchers to visualize and study the nanoscale topography, forces, and mechanical properties of cells, biomolecules, and viruses. The new...