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 - Research Infrastructure Programs) provides $1,769,674 to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to purchase a Leica Stellaris 8 (LS8) confocal microscope. The LS8 will replace UCSC's aging 16-year-old confocal microscope and enhance the imaging capabilities of its Life Sciences Microscopy Center core facility. The new microscope will support NIH-funded...
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 This specialized microscope system will replace the university's outdated microscopy capabilities and enable advanced imaging techniques to support diverse biomedical research...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 $635,689 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) will fund the acquisition of a ZEISS LSM 980 confocal microscope with Airyscan 2 technology for the Optical Imaging Core Facility (OIF) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). The new confocal microscope will replace obsolete equipment and provide critical advanced imaging capabilities to support over 80 NIH-funded...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351 - Research Infrastructure Programs) provided $740,044 to The Johns Hopkins University to acquire an Olympus FV4000 confocal microscope. This state-of-the-art microscope system addresses key limitations of traditional confocal microscopy, enabling advanced biomedical imaging capabilities such as improved multiplexing, higher spatial resolution, faster imaging speeds, and...
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...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $499,553 Project Grant to Grinnell College under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to acquire a laser scanning confocal microscope. The microscope will support research and teaching activities in biology, biochemistry, chemistry, and physics at Grinnell College from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. Specifically, the microscope will be used to study synaptic plasticity, detect microtubule formation below the diffraction limit of...
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 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) awarded a $249,747 Project Grant (CFDA 93.351) to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) to acquire a Zeiss LSM 900 fluorescence confocal microscope. This state-of-the-art imaging system will support the research efforts of multiple NIH-funded investigators at VCU by enabling high-speed, multi-scale 3D visualization of cell cultures and tissue samples. The new microscope will significantly upgrade VCU's...