Support from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Small Animal Imaging Resource Program (SAIRP NCI U24 CA092656) helps develop integrated technologies for multi-modality small animal molecular imaging, apply technologies to cancer research, disseminate technologies, and train scientists in use of these technologies. We also have another NCI grant (R21 CA124584, Cristian Badea, PI) to investigate tumor perfusion in small animals with tomographic digital subtraction angiography.

Support from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) (R21 HL087094, Bastiaan Driehuys, PI), helps us investigate hyperpolarized ¹²⁹Xe imaging of pulmonary gas exchange.

Additional pulmonary studies are supported through a contract with Merck Frosst to demonstrate the ability of ³He imaging to differentiate the airway hyper-responsiveness phenotype in several mouse models of asthma.

We are one of 6 universities involved in the Mouse Biomedical Informatics Research Network (Mouse BIRN) test bed to study neurodegenerative diseases by pooling multi-modal data from mouse models to investigate neurological disorders. This initiative is funded by NCRR.

A training grant from National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) with our colleagues in Biomedical Engineering helps support our pre-doctoral students in their first 2 years to undertake a curriculum that provides broad training in medical physics and instrumentation followed by more focused specialized coursework.