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Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Address: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC 2 Riverside Circle Roanoke, VA 24016-4950 Project Director: Dr. Michael J. Friedlander Phone: 540-526-2011 Email: frieldan@vtc.vt.edu Website Address: https://fbri.vtc.vt.edu/ Requested Grant Program Funds: $1,000,000 The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute (FBRI) at VTC is a national leader in imaging living systems of molecules, cells, organs and organisms in heath and disease, and is poised to fill a remaining gap in key imaging equipment with the purchase of a Leica STELLARIS 8 FALCON confocal point scanning system. This imaging system is new technology rarely found in the United States that will enhance the FBRI’s ability to recruit and retain top researchers and compete for federal research dollars. The new imaging equipment will complement the FBRI’s collection of state-of-the-art systems enabling near real-time tracking of molecular, cellular and organ structure and function with unparalleled spatial and temporal resolution and sensitivity. This investment would set the FBRI apart as one of few leading university health sciences and biomedical imaging facilities that allows for the full range of imaging modalities and analysis, each of which play an important role in diagnostics and therapeutics for the FBRI’s areas of focus in brain disease, heart disease, and cancer research.
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