Project Grant S10OD040183
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) awarded $374,996 to the University of Alabama on September 1, 2025, to acquire an advanced Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM) system integrated with nanoscale imaging and spectroscopic analysis capabilities. The LabRam Odyssey system combines Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), Raman spectroscopy, Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS), and Tip-Enhanced Photoluminescence (TEPL) technologies to...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director awarded the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $425,494 under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) on May 15, 2026, to acquire a Miltenyi UltraMicroscope Blaze with Lightspeed Mode light-sheet microscopy system. This instrument provides cellular-resolution imaging capabilities for large cleared tissue samples, including whole mouse organs, mouse tumors, and human biopsies at...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Tulane University received a $430,448 Project Grant (S10 instrumentation mechanism) awarded June 1, 2026, under the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director's Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire a Cytek Aurora full spectrum flow cytometer with automated sample loader capabilities for the Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting (FCCS) Core Facility at the Tulane University School of Medicine. The state-of-the-art instrument, equipped with...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Alabama at Birmingham received a $408,375 Project Grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2030. This five-year research initiative focuses on investigating the fundamental mechanisms underlying the production, regulation, and function of microbial appendages, including flagella and pili, with the...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director awarded a $674,156 Project Grant to the University of Maryland, Baltimore under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) on May 15, 2026, for a 12-month performance period concluding May 14, 2027. The award funds the acquisition and installation of a Thermo Fisher Scientific Talos L120C G2 transmission electron microscope (TEM) to replace a decommissioned 20-year-old instrument at the...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director awarded a $1 Project Grant to the University of California, Irvine on July 15, 2025, under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351). The award funds the acquisition and installation of a refurbished Orbitrap Eclipse Tribrid mass spectrometer from Thermo Fisher Scientific, equipped with an Easy Electron Transfer Dissociation (ETD) option. This instrument provides advanced analytical...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director awarded $1.5 million to the University of Illinois under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) on July 15, 2025, for the acquisition of a Bruker Avance Neo nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer. The instrument, operating at 500 megahertz proton frequency and equipped with a digital autosampler and cryogenically nitrogen-cooled detection probe, will be installed at the University of...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded the University of Pennsylvania $405,787 under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire an Asymmetric Flow Field-Flow Fractionation system coupled with Multi-Angle Light Scattering (AF4-MALS) technology. This instrumentation acquisition, awarded on May 1, 2026 with completion targeted for April 30, 2027, will be housed in the Johnson Foundation Structural Biology and Biophysics Core...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Alabama received a $240,146 Project Grant award dated August 15, 2025, from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). This collaborative research initiative will develop specialized microfluidic devices designed to investigate how physical deformation affects cellular proliferation and motility in individual cells and cell...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Florida received a $595,180 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire an AB SCIEX QTRAP 7500 liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) instrument. The award, issued on July 15, 2025, with a completion date of July 14, 2026, funds the purchase and deployment of this state-of-the-art analytical instrument at the university's...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director awarded the University of Alabama at Birmingham $671,059 under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire a Beckman-Coulter Optima Analytical Ultracentrifuge (AUC) equipped with Rayleigh interference and multi-wavelength UV-visible absorbance detection capabilities. The instrument, awarded June 1, 2026, with a completion date of May 31, 2027, will replace UAB's obsolete 29-year-old XL-I AUC and serve as the sole analytical ultracentrifuge in Alabama. The Optima AUC will be housed within the new Biophysical Chemistry Characterization Core (BC3) and represents the only commercially available analytical ultracentrifuge following Beckman-Coulter's discontinuation of the ProteomeLab XL-I model. The acquired instrumentation will advance multiple NIH-funded research initiatives across UAB's School of Medicine and academic departments, including investigations in cancer, viral genome delivery and packaging, neurodegenerative diseases, HIV-1 viral assembly, biofilm formation, and dental caries. The equipment will support active R00, R01, R35, and R37 grant recipients from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), directly aligning with the university's mission to advance transformational research and innovation.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $671.1k | 6/1/26 |