Good things come in 3’s! Nanoscope receives award (again) as part of the top research team in NEI 3-D ROC challenge

Arlington, TX, September 20, 2022—Researchers at the University of Colorado led by Valeria Canto-Soler and those from Nanoscope® led by Samarendra Mohanty, PhD were recognized as the winning top research team of the final phase of the 3D-Retinal Organoid Challenge (ROC) challenge by the National Eye Institute (NEI).   This marks the first time an institution has earned top honors in each phase of the competition, consecutively.   The team at Nanoscope congratulates all the finalists in the 3-D ROC challenge.  Nanoscope develops de-novo solutions and instruments which leverage the teams’ basic science and engineering capabilities to advance its own therapeutic programs while providing access to others these cutting-edge instruments.  Nanoscope Instruments  has strong regional, national, and international collaborations in ocular and biomedical research.   Nanoscope Instruments was incorporated in 2019 and is an affiliate of Nanoscope Technologies, LLC, which was founded in 2009 by Samarendra Mohanty, PhD. Nanoscope has received several SBIR awards, National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grants, and patents which focus on optical stimulation, gene delivery, and imaging for neural activity monitoring.  Additional details and contact information are attached within.

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