DELAWARE: INBRE receives new confocal microscope
An NIH S10 High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program was awarded for the Dragonfly spinning disc confocal microscope with 3D localization-based super resolution capabilities.
Delaware INBRE Co-Director of the Centralized Research Instrumentation Core, Dr. Jeff Caplan, was awarded the S10 grant in early 2021.
The new microscope is set to arrive in August of 2021.
The High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-end, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems. The minimum award is $600,001. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $2,000,000. Instruments supported include, but are not limited to, biomedical imagers, high throughput robotic screening systems, X-ray diffractometers, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, and cell sorters.