# MEDIC - MicroED Imaging Center - Community Engagement

> **NIH NIH P41** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · 2020 · $94,750

## Abstract

Community engagement
SUMMARY
The primary goals of the community engagement of the proposed MEDIC BTRR are (1) to disseminate and to
provide access to MicroED technology, and (2) to facilitate new and exciting research that perhaps is intractable
by other methods. This will be mainly accomplished by providing: (1) access to MicroED instrumentation and
facilitating interactions with experienced scientists to all who wish to conduct MicroED experiments as part of
their own research programs, and (2) outreach to relevant scientific communities in efforts to disseminate recent
MicroED advances in a direct and hands-on manner. The Gonen laboratory has worked diligently at community
outreach to spread MicroED technology by holding workshops, training new users and collaborated with many
groups from research laboratories across the country. To help facilitate continued expansion of MicroED and
further collaborations, the MEDIC center will be open to those researchers who have demonstrated a need and
desire to conduct MicroED experiments. Collaborators will be able to visit the MicroED imaging center from
around the country to engage in MicroED data collection and learn first-hand how to perform the data collection
and analysis. We foresee that the greatest collaborator base for MicroED will be within the existing
crystallography, cryoEM communities and chemists. Crystallographers have limited experience in the technique,
but a wealth of knowledge in crystallization, sample preparation, data collection, analysis using X-ray software
while cryoEM, users have access to equipment and cryoEM capabilities for data collection. Chemists and those
that are working on drug design and discovery are enthusiastic about MicroED for its potential in facilitating rapid
structure determination from femtogram amounts of material that are intractable by other methods. Therefore,
we will focus our outreach on these communities through the variety of means described below.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9935728
- **Project number:** 1P41GM136508-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
- **Principal Investigator:** Tamir Gonen
- **Activity code:** P41 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $94,750
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9935728

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9935728, MEDIC - MicroED Imaging Center - Community Engagement (1P41GM136508-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9935728. Licensed CC0.

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