Project Grant S15OD042593
- The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded Cornell University $349,982 under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) on September 1, 2026 to advance germ-free and gnotobiotic mouse husbandry operations at the Cornell Center for Animal Resources and Education. The award funds the acquisition of isolator caging systems and biosafety changing systems designed to maintain sterile germ-free environments for research mice. The isolator systems feature enhanced ports...
- The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded the University of Delaware $349,827 on August 15, 2026, under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to procure and install individually ventilated caging (IVC) systems and filtered animal handling transfer cabinets at the Life Sciences Research Facility (LSRF) in Newark, Delaware. The LSRF, which serves over 30 principal investigators and multiple NIH-funded programs, has experienced 70 percent growth in animal housing...
- The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded $350,000 to Seattle Children's Hospital (doing business as Seattle Children's Research Institute) on September 1, 2026, under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to purchase a digital ventilated cage system from Tecniplast for the Behavioral Phenotyping Core vivarium. The DVC system incorporates continuous, real-time monitoring of animal activity and environmental cage parameters including temperature, humidity,...
- The National Institute of General Medical Sciences awarded $182,706 to the Research Foundation of The City University of New York (doing business as RFCUNY - Brooklyn College) on July 1, 2026, under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) to acquire a HypoxyStation H35 hypoxic chamber for Brooklyn College's School of Natural and Behavioral Sciences. The chamber will enable faculty and students across multiple departments—Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Earth...
- The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded The New York Structural Biology Center, Inc. $1.97 million on June 15, 2026, under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire Gatan BioContinuum energy filters for three Titan Krios G2 300-kilovolt cryo-transmission electron microscopes housed at the Simons Electron Microscopy Center (SEMC). The energy filters will extend the capability of the microscopes for high-resolution data collection supporting both...
- The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded A.T. Still University of Health Sciences $131,142 on September 1, 2026 under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire a Lynx Model 310XL cage and bottle washer for the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine animal care facility. The university proposed purchase of the modern, efficient, eco-friendly washer to replace an outdated unit installed in 2010 that can no longer meet the demands of the shared...
- The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded $956,000 to Advanced Center For Electron Spin Resonance Research And Technology, Inc. on September 1, 2026, under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to purchase and install a pulsed electron spin resonance oxygen imaging system (ESROI) at Cornell University's Cornell Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility (CMRIF). The ESROI system is the only commercially available ESR-based oxygen imager and will be the first...
- The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded Vanderbilt University Medical Center $210,120 on September 1, 2026, to purchase and install a shielded laminar flow hood for the manufacture of investigational radiopharmaceuticals and molecular imaging agents under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351). The equipment—a von Gahlen shielded laminar flow hood with included dose calibrator and UV sterilization system—will replace...
- The National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute awarded $689,865 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York on August 5, 2026, under the Cancer Biology Research program (CFDA 93.396) to develop methodological tools and frameworks for cancer microbiome study design and analysis. The award funds development of a comprehensive toolset to address contamination and batch-effect challenges in tumor microbiome research. Specific deliverables include a new method to...
- The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded $466,325 to the University of Rochester on May 15, 2026, under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to acquire a Bruker Skyscan 1276 CMOS Edition high-resolution in vivo microCT imaging system. The system will be housed in the Biomechanics and Multimodal Tissue Imaging Core of the Center for Musculoskeletal Research at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry...
The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York $350,000 on September 1, 2026, under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to modernize sterilization infrastructure at the Irving Cancer Research Center vivarium. Columbia will replace a bulk steam autoclave with a Gruenberg Steri-Dry bulk dry-heat sterilizer to sterilize cages supporting barrier housing for patient-derived xenografts, immunocompromised and humanized mouse strains, and genetically engineered mouse models used by over 80 investigators, more than 85 percent of whom are NIH-funded. The vivarium serves the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center, enabling research in tumor biology, immuno-oncology, cancer genomics, and translational therapeutics. Dry-heat sterilization delivers equivalent sterility assurance to steam autoclaving while reducing annual utility costs by more than 70 percent. Per-cycle costs drop from $28.32 for steam to $14.21 for dry heat, and the system eliminates approximately $4,500 in annual cage replacement costs from steam-induced polymer damage, yielding nearly 75 percent annual savings overall. Dry-heat sterilization produces cages that are sterile, dry, and free of baked-on bedding, reducing labor and enabling same-day sterile setups for irreplaceable and immunocompromised models. The upgrade will also allow Columbia to decommission the inefficient ICRC steam plant, lowering steam demand across campus. Performance occurs at New York, NY 10032 through August 31, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $350.0k | 8/18/26 |