Rachel Wong
University of Washington, WA·Neuroscience
Much of vision research depends on seeing the fine structure of tissue clearly. That requires advanced microscopes and well-prepared samples.
- Fields
Neuroscience
Biology
- Topics
vision research
vision science
core facility
- Grants
- 1 known grant, last ended Aug 2026
What they work on
- Provide vision researchers with access to confocal microscopes and electron microscopes, including serial block-face scanning electron microscopes that build 3D images of tissue layer by layer.
- Offer dedicated technical help and training in preparing tissue for microscopy (histology), so research groups can produce samples suited to confocal and electron imaging.
- Train and assist users in acquiring and analyzing images from the core microscopes, and maintain the equipment through service contracts and a biomedical engineer.
More about the research
These instruments are costly and demanding to run, so sharing them, along with expert staff, lets many research groups work faster and more easily together. This grant supports a shared facility rather than a single research project: the Microscopy and Histology Core Module of the University of Washington Vision Research Core. Its goal is to make vision scientists' research programs more productive and efficient, and to encourage collaboration among them.
Why it matters
By giving vision scientists shared access to confocal and electron microscopes, together with training in tissue preparation and image analysis, the core helps many vision research groups work more efficiently. It also makes collaboration among them easier, which supports a broader range of vision research than individual labs could equip on their own.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
University of Washington: 81 labs on PI Pages, $1.7B a year on research, 694 research doctorates a year.
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