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Platform Technologies CIF Awards

Division or Centre	Title of award	PI	Contact
Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging - ICH	Facilities for In vivo Studies	Mark Lythgoe	CABI
Inst. Ophthalmology	Aquatic Species Ocular Phenotyping and Holding Facility	Christiana Ruhrberg	Biological Services
Biosciences	Xenopus frog facility	Lucia Sivilotti	Biological Services
Institute of Child Health	Transgenic and small animal technologies	Andy Copp	UCL Transgenics
Cancer Institute and Institute of Child Health	Multi-Divisonal bid for new Solexa sequencing facilities	Chris Boshoff and Andy Copp	UCL Genomics
Institute of Women's Health - Gynaecological Oncology/Primary Care & Population Sciences	Support Project around the development of a central Biobank. Additional amount to refurbish space at Royal Free resulting from move of elements of PCPS from Archway	Ian Jacobs, Usha Menon and Andrew Hayward	UCL Biobank
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research	Circuit Neurosciences Imaging Centre	Michael Hausser
Inst. Neurology	Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging infrastructure upgrade (fMRI scanner)	Ray Dolan	WTCN
Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging - ICH and Metabolism and Experimental Therapeutics	To establish a preclinical molecular imaging facility with new PET/CT and SPECT/CT systems	Mark Lythgoe	CABI
Institute of Child Health	Provision of a Roche GS-FLX ultradeep sequencing facility for UCL	Mike Hubank	UCL Genomics
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research	Establishing a UCL Chemi-bank: inert atmosphere pods and LCMS for storage and curation of small molecule screening libraries.	Dave Selwood	UCL ChemiBank
Inst. Ophthalmology	High Resolution 3D Electron Microscopy Imaging Platform	David Shima	IoO Imaging
Haematology	Proposal to establish a joint UCL/RFH NHS Trust Research Tissue BioBank and centralised Clinical Trial Monitoring Laboratory on the UCL Royal Free Campus	Mark Lowdell	UCL Biobank
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research	Computational Support for Platform Technologies	Salvador Moncada	Platform Technologies
Cancer Institute	Small animal radiation research platform (SARRP)	Susan Short
Infection and Immunity	High-Resolution Agilent Scanner Upgrade for UCL Genomics	Richard Jenner	UCL Genomics
Institute of Child Health	UCL biomarker discovery / metabolomic program	Andy Copp	UCL Proteomics
Medicine	X-ray diffraction system for protein crystallography	Steve Wood	Centre for Amyloidosis and Acute Phase Proteins
Cancer Institute	Maximizing return on investment for next-generation sequencing capacity at UCL	Elia Stupka	UCL Genomics
Biosciences	Enhancement of Confocal Technology	Claudio Stern	Biosciences Imaging Facility
Biosciences	Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy	Claudio Stern	Biosciences Imaging Facility
Biosciences	High Throughout Confocal Imaging Platform	John Carroll
Biosciences	Micro CT Scanner (SkyScan 1076)	Claudio Stern	Biosciences Imaging Facility
PaLS	Eyelink 1000/2k eye tracking system/Building a multimodal Communications Laboratory	Suzanne Beeke and Gabriella Vigliocco	Multimodal Laboratory
PaLS	High resolution RF coil and multi-channel upgrade for BUCNI magnet	Marty Sereno	BUCNI
Biosciences	Development of a second generation 3D 2-photon microscope based on acousto-optic deflectors for a high speed imaging of neural activity	Angus Silver
Biosciences	A luminescent photon counting (IPD) imaging system for monitoring long-term changes in gene expression, calcium levels and BRET in live single cells, tissues and embryos	David Whitmore	Biosciences Imaging Facility
Biosciences	High Throughput Analytical Facilities for Biological Macromolecules and Cells – particularly for therapeutic use	Steve Perkins	Molecular Interactions Facility
Biosciences	CIF proposal for creating biological MS Facilities at UCL	Gabriel Waksman	Adam McKay
Biosciences	The nCounter Analysis System: a New Powerful and Versatile Digital RNA Quantifier for Biomedical Research	Paola Oliveri	UCL Genomics
Biosciences	High-Throughput Screening Platform	Robin Ketteler
Biosciences	Mid-infrared vibrational spectroscopy facilities for applications from structural biology to medical diagnostics	Peter Rich
Biosciences	Ultra High Resolution Spatio-Temporal Microscopy at UCL	Jonathan Ashmore
PaLS	Functional Transcranial Doppler for studies of cerebral lateralisation	Bencie Woll	DCAL
PaLS	Eye tracking on the move	Gabriella Vigliocco	Multimodal Laboratory
Medicine (Royal Free)	UCL Proteomics: university-wide access to an essential platform technology	Justin Hsuan	UCL Proteomics