NIGMS encourages research to discover or develop cross-cutting technologies, including optical imaging and biomechanical techniques, for cellular and molecular imaging and/or spectroscopy systems and methods that can be applied to research on multiple biological or disease processes.

Funding Opportunities

• Single Molecule Detection and Manipulation  
   Program announcement PA-01-049 
  
• Research and Development of Systems and Methods for Cellular and Molecular Imaging (co-sponsored by NIBIB)
  Request for applications RFA-EB-03-003
   
• Development of High Resolution Probes for Cellular Imaging (Roadmap initiative)
  Request for applications RFA-RM-04-001
   
• Single Molecule Detection and Manipulation - SBIR/STTR (co-sponsored by NIDDK, NHGRI)
  Program announcement PA-01-050 

Meetings & Reports

• Tools for Discovery: Imaging Molecular Events in Living Cells Meeting
  NIGMS meeting report, July 10, 2003 
   
• NIGMS Single Molecule Detection and Manipulation Workshop
  NIGMS meeting report, April 17-18, 2000 

For more information about NIGMS’ Single Molecule Detection & Manipulation programs, contact:

Catherine Lewis, Ph.D.
Program Director
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
National Institutes of Health
45 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892-6200
Phone: (301) 594-0828
E-mail: lewisc@nigms.nih.gov