Project Grant S10OD040161
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $395,745 award on May 15, 2026, from the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire a 3DHISTECH Pannoramic 250 Flash III digital pathology scanner. This high-speed, automated slide scanning system will serve the institution's Pathology Services Core (PSC), a shared research resource supporting over 350 primary...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $2,257,345 Project Grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) for the period September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2029. The award supports the development of next-generation microscopy instrumentation and computational methods to advance biological research across spatiotemporal scales. The project will...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director awarded the University of South Carolina $749,362 under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire a ZEISS LSM 980 confocal microscope with Airyscan2 capabilities for biological research. The award, effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2026, funds the procurement and deployment of advanced microscopy instrumentation designed to replace the institution's aging ZEISS LSM 700...
- Federal Project Grant Summary The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director awarded $1,769,674 to the University of California, Santa Cruz under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) on May 15, 2025, for the acquisition and installation of a Leica Stellaris 8 (LS8) confocal laser scanning microscope. The award funds the procurement of this state-of-the-art fluorescence imaging instrument to replace a 16-year-old Leica SP5 confocal microscope that reached the end...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Pittsburgh received a $516,462 Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire and install a Nikon AXR confocal microscope system at the Center for Biologic Imaging within the School of Medicine. The award, dated May 15, 2026, with a completion date of May 14, 2027, funds the purchase of a single integrated 4-color confocal microscope with resonant...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Northwestern University's Sponsored Research Division received $436,640 in project grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire an AXL Cleared Tissue Light Sheet (AXL CTLS) microscope system from 3i. The award, issued on May 15, 2026 with a completion date of May 14, 2027, supports the replacement of the Center for Advanced Microscopy's end-of-life Miltenyi...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Southern California received a $1,131,640 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) on September 19, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2026. The grant funds the acquisition and installation of a Leica Stellaris 8 DIVE/FALCON multimodal multiphoton fluorescence microscope powered by a Chameleon Discovery NX laser, which will be operated by...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Miami received a $590,000 Project Grant award dated August 1, 2025, under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) administered by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director. The award funds the acquisition of a Leica Stellaris 5 upright confocal microscope to replace an obsolete 18-year-old Leica SP-5 confocal microscope dedicated to live animal imaging applications. The new instrument will provide high-resolution...
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $2.0 million Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire a JEOL JEM-CRYO ARM300 (JEM-3300), a 300 kilovolt (kev) cryogenic-transmission electron microscope (cryoTEM). The award, obligated on August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2026, will establish this instrument at UNC-CH's cryoEM Core facility to support high-resolution...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Johns Hopkins University received a $740,044 Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) on July 15, 2025, for the acquisition and deployment of an Olympus FV-4000 confocal microscope. This advanced imaging system addresses critical limitations in confocal microscopy research by integrating silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) technology, high-speed resonance scanning...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received $425,494.00 in federal funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire a Miltenyi Ultramicroscope Blaze with Lightspeed mode, a light-sheet microscopy system designed for high-speed imaging of large cleared tissue samples at cellular resolution. The award, obligated on May 15, 2026 with a completion date of May 14, 2027, supports the acquisition of this advanced instrumentation configured with five lasers (488, 561, 640, 685, and 785 nanometers) optimized for multi-fluorophore imaging of whole mouse organs, tumors, and human biopsies. The institution supplemented the federal award with $35,000 in internal funds for software enhancements to accelerate imaging workflows. The Ultramicroscope Blaze will replace an obsolete Lavision Ultramicroscope II system and serve as a shared resource through the university's Microscopy Services Laboratory core facility, enabling research across 24 laboratories conducting NIH-funded investigations in neuroscience, immunology, cancer biology, lung disease, kidney development, and vascular biology. The new system offers order-of-magnitude speed improvements over the legacy equipment, making previously infeasible experiments with prohibitively long imaging times now achievable for multiple active research programs.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $425.5k | 5/7/26 |