Institutional core labs secure $4.6 million for technology to accelerate research discoveries
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“Funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Shared Instrumentation program and the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute (CPRIT) Core Facility Support program allows state-of-the art technology to be purchased for highly used institutional core labs by UT Health San Antonio researchers, but also made available to external research partners,” said Ramiro Ramirez-Solis, PhD, director of the institutional core labs. He added, “Writing these grants is very time intensive, so I am delighted that Michael Berton, PhD; Alex Taylor, PhD, and Exing Wang, PhD, were successful in their efforts to support the research enterprise.”
The $3,623,500 CPRIT grant will allow the Flow Cytometry Core Lab to purchase new technology that enables scientists to more efficiently study cellular characteristics in a single experimental or clinical sample. With the NIH funds, the Optical Imaging Core Lab will purchase a ZEISS Lightsheet 7 and the Structural Biology Core Lab will purchase the Rigaku HyPix-6000HE Hybrid Photon Counting (HPC) Detector, VariMax-VHF confocal optic and Universal Goniometer.
For biomedical research to be conducted and published at the speed we’ve witnessed with COVID-19 the past 18 months, this investment in these centralized shared research resources is required, Dr. Ramirez-Solis added.
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