Project Grant S15OD042572
- The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded the Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center $750,000 on May 1, 2026, under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to purchase a Leica Stellaris confocal microscope for its centrally managed core facility in Torrance, California. The Stellaris system will replace a 12-year-old Leica SP8 microscope and serve a broad user group of 12 investigators (10 of whom are NIH-funded) conducting...
- The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco $959,619 on July 15, 2026, under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire a ThermFisher Scientific L120C 120-kilovolt transmission electron microscope for the UCSF CryoEM Core Facility. The facility houses multiple electron microscopes serving over one hundred researchers across more than thirty laboratories at UCSF and neighboring institutions. The new...
- The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded $425,494 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on May 15, 2026, under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to procure a Miltenyi UltraMicroscope Blaze with Lightspeed Mode for placement in the university's Microscopy Services Laboratory in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The award funds a light-sheet microscope capable of imaging large cleared tissue samples at cellular resolution, designed to replace an...
- The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded the University of Texas at San Antonio $350,000 on July 1, 2026, under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to purchase a Zeiss LSM 910 confocal microscope for the Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology (NDRB) Core Facility. The microscope will replace an aging Zeiss LSM 710 that lost manufacturer support as of September 1, 2024. The instrument will be housed, managed, and maintained by the NDRB...
- The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded $386,391 to Texas A&M University System Health Science Center on June 15, 2026, under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire a VS200 slide scanner equipped with automatic loader and structured illumination from Evident Scientific. The scanner will be housed within the Integrated Microscopy and Imaging Laboratory (IMIL) at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College of Medicine in Bryan,...
- 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...
- The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded The Johns Hopkins University $1.795 million on August 1, 2026, under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire an Abberior MINFLUX 3D Nanoscope for super-resolution microscopy. The instrument will enable tracking of fluorophores with molecular precision of 1–3 nanometers at high speed, supporting investigations into molecular interactions and molecular motions that underlie biological functions. The microscope...
- The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded $2 million to the University of California, Davis on June 15, 2026 under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire a United Imaging UMR Ultra 3T wide-bore magnetic resonance imaging scanner for installation at the Imaging Research Center in Sacramento, California. The IRC's existing 3T scanner serves as the primary human imaging platform for more than 30 NIH-funded research projects and currently operates at...
- The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded The Washington University $750,000 on May 15, 2026, under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire an Abberior Mirava 3D STED microscope for the Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging (WUCCI), a shared technology resource. The microscope enables super-resolution imaging of molecular topographies in fixed or live tissues and cells at 40-nanometer resolution using fluorescent probes, exceeding the...
- 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...
The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded $175,000 to J. David Gladstone Institutes on September 1, 2026, under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire a Roche Discovery Ultra IHC/ISH research platform for the Histology and Light Microscopy Core. The platform will automate immunofluorescence and immunohistochemistry slide processing, which staff currently perform manually with time-consuming, costly, and variable results. The Discovery Ultra will enable the core to offer RNA in situ hybridization services—a technique for visualizing and localizing specific RNA molecules within cellular and tissue environments—and will allow imaging for both brightfield and fluorescence using existing slide scanners. Automation will optimize workflows for greater consistency and accuracy and enable advanced protocols that cannot currently be offered as services. The Histology and Light Microscopy Core serves researchers from Gladstone, UCSF Mission Bay, and biotechnology companies in the Bay Area and has operated for more than twenty years. Performance is at San Francisco, California 94158. The award period runs through August 31, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $175.0k | 8/18/26 |