Francis Crick Institute Spatial Biology Grant
About the Grant Program
Announcing the Grant Recipient
Akoya Biosciences would like to thank all the researchers who submitted applications for this grant program. The quality of abstracts was high, but after careful consideration we are pleased to announce the grant recipient is:
Rute Ferreira
Postdoctoral Researcher
The Francis Crick Institute
Project Summary:
Congratulations to Rute Ferreira on the award of the Francis Crick Spatial Biology Grant. Rute will use this grant towards her goal in understanding how pancreatic cancer nerves regulate, and are regulated by, the cancer-associated inflammation using multispectral imaging with the PhenoImager HT in the Experimental Histopathology core unit.
Congratulations Rute!
Thank you for your interest in this grant program.
Gain a new perspective on your tissue samples
Akoya Biosciences is pleased to sponsor this grant program with the Francis Crick Institute to support researchers in spatial phenotyping diverse cellular landscapes.
Goal: Using the PhenoImager™ HT instrument, the Experimental Histopathology core unit at the Francis Crick Institute is offering a multispectral imaging service to enable the identification and linear unmixing of spectrally overlapping biomarkers. Unmixed, whole slide scans can be generated at 40x in 7 colours (6-plex + DAPI) with autofluorescence removal in less than 10 minutes. This enables researchers to study a greater number of cell phenotypes at once, and to explore how they interact in situ to impact disease pathology, beyond the limitations of conventional IHC and IF.
Award: A 1500 GBP grant will be awarded to a researcher at the Francis Crick Institute towards a spatial profiling project with the Experimental Histopathology core unit. This grant award will support the purchase of assay reagents from Akoya Biosciences for the project. Technical support will also be provided to the winning submission by a reagent specialist from Akoya Biosciences to optimize Opal™ dye panel development. To apply, complete the registration form and provide a short abstract describing how multispectral imaging can support your research.
Eligibility: Applications are open to researchers at the Francis Crick Institute only. Applications will close on 1st July 2022.
The grant program is subject to the Akoya and Francis Crick Spatial Biology Grant Program Terms and Conditions which contain eligibility restrictions. Void where prohibited.
