# A Facility to Generate Connectomics Information

> **NIH NIH U24** · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $1,262,202

## Abstract

The goal of this proposal is to disseminate high resolution large volume serial section electron
microscopy data to neuroscientists. Using our electron microscopy facility, we will provide user
training on the use of these new technologies and provide access to our specialized facilities so
that they may generate permanent ultrathin sections and create data sets amenable for neural
circuit analysis or neural and glial cell type analysis. We will make minor improvements in our
software to increase the scale and efficiency of user data production to meet the needs of a
user community that are inexperienced in these approaches. This project addresses compelling
needs of neuroscience researchers who work on the first high priority goal of the BRAIN 2025
report: “Mapping the Structure and Components of Circuits” by providing them access to tools
that are otherwise unavailable or impractical in their current form.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9792304
- **Project number:** 5U24NS109102-02
- **Recipient organization:** HARVARD UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Jeff W Lichtman
- **Activity code:** U24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $1,262,202
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-30 → 2024-02-29

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9792304

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9792304, A Facility to Generate Connectomics Information (5U24NS109102-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9792304. Licensed CC0.

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