# Cell and Tissue Imaging Facility

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · 2020 · $118,888

## Abstract

Abstract: Cell and Tissue Imaging Facility (CTIF)
The goal of the Cell and Tissue Imaging Facility (CTIF) is to provide UPMC Hillman Cancer Center (HCC)
members with a “cutting-edge” resource equipped to address all research-related microscopy needs and
expert advice on experimental design and data analysis. The imaging specialties offered by CTIF include: light
and fluorescence microscopy (macro-dissecting light and fluorescence, epi-fluorescence, confocal scanning,
and multi-photon imaging); live cell microscopy (transmitted light and fluorescence) and fluorescence
specialties including fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), spectral analysis, ratiometric imaging,
super-resolution microscopy (stimulated emission depletion microscopy [STED] structured illumination
microscopy [SIM] and stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy [STORM]) technologies), light sheet
approaches (both macro and lattice), ribbon scanning ultrafast confocal microscopy; ultrastructural electron
microscopy (transmission electron microscopy [TEM], scanning electron microscopy [SEM], immuno-electron
SEM and TEM. In addition, the faculty and staff of CTIF provide expertise for assisting with experimental
design, instrument use, software use, and complex imaging and analysis methods. Furthermore we are expert
in the development and application of computer aided morphometric analysis methods and actively develop
algorithms for quantitation of events in living and fixed material.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10024342
- **Project number:** 2P30CA047904-32
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
- **Principal Investigator:** SIMON C WATKINS
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $118,888
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 1997-09-10 → 2025-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10024342

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10024342, Cell and Tissue Imaging Facility (2P30CA047904-32). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10024342. Licensed CC0.

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