CosMx™ Spatial Molecular Imager Grant

Applications will be accepted May 30 through June 30, 2022

Calling all single cell researchers! NanoString is announcing the first ever spatial single cell grant leveraging the power of CosMx™ Spatial Molecular Imager! Expand your single cell studies with Spatial context and advance your insights of cell-cell interactions, cell states and neighborhood analysis.

CosMx Spatial Molecular Imager applications include:
● Cell Atlasing: Discover & map cell types and cell states
● Differential Expression (DE): Single-cell DE based on spatial context
● Neighborhood Analysis: Phenotype of tissue microenvironment
● Cell-cell Interaction: Ligand-Receptor interactome
● Subcellular Localization
● Biomarker Discovery and Validation

The grant will provide up to 4 slides with up to twenty (20) desired profiling regions, or Field Of View (FOVs), per slide and using the CosMx Spatial Molecular Imager running the 1000-plex RNA Panel through the CosMx SMI Technology Access Program.

Instructions to apply:

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Terms and Conditions

Publication of Project Results:

Upon project completion, the grant winner agrees to participate in at least one of the following activities relating to the specific project, with specific details of the applicable activity to be mutually agreed upon in good faith by NanoString and each winner: webinar, case study, blog post, or poster presentation. Each winner agrees that NanoString shall have the right to publicly announce the winner’s name and research topic and use anonymized data from the winner’s project in application notes including in marketing materials and seminars.

Eligibility and Requirements:

Applicants must be actively enrolled or employed at an institution or company in a capacity in which they perform life science research and have the ability to ship and analyze samples within 45 days of award notification. The winner must be age 18 or older. Members of the immediate families of NanoString employees and directors, and/or persons living in the same household as such persons, are ineligible to participate in this grant program. The grant winners will provide up to 4 slides to NanoString, with up to twenty (20) desired profiling regions, or Fields of View (FOVs), per slide to be mutually agreed upon, and to be used with the CosMx Spatial Molecular Imager, running the 1000-plex RNA Panel through the CosMx SMI Technology Access Program. Each FOV covers an area of 0.7 mm x 1 mm. An assay report, including raw data and processed results, will be provided to the winner.

Miscellaneous:

By submitting a grant application, each applicant agrees that NanoString may use his or her name, abstract title, and abstract for marketing purposes. All grant applicants agree that NanoString may process the personal data he or she provides as part of application, including sharing such data with NanoString’s partners, collaborators and other third parties who are obligated to keep the data confidential, and in accordance with NanoString’s privacy policies available at www.nanostring.com/privacy. The grant award winner may be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility, release of liability, a publicity release, and other appropriate legal documentation reasonably requested by NanoString. No substitution or transfer of the awarded grant is allowed, except as otherwise permitted by NanoString. The award winner is responsible for any local tax liability (city, state, or federal) occurred by winning and accepting the award. If, for any reason, the grant program may not run as planned for any causes beyond the reasonable control of NanoString, then NanoString reserves the right in its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the grant program. NanoString has not made any warranty, representation, or guarantee, express or implied, with respect to the grant award and related services, including, without limitation, their quality or fitness for a particular purpose. This program is void where prohibited or otherwise restricted by law. These terms and conditions and any action related to this grant program will be governed by the laws of the State of Washington without regard to or application of its conflict of law provisions or your state or country of residence. All claims, legal proceedings or litigation arising in connection with these terms and conditions and this grant program will be brought solely in the federal or state courts located in Seattle, Washington, and all applicants consent to the jurisdiction of and venue in such courts and waive any objection as to inconvenient forum. By participating in this grant program, each applicant unconditionally accepts and agrees to comply with and abide by these terms and conditions.