The Science Exchange and microryza have embarked on two separate but related initiatives in order to support researchers, scientists, and grad students who have suffered decades-worth of substantive analytic data and specimens losses.

Microryza initiated a support fund established specifically for the purpose of restoration of New York University's research labs. Publication opportunities and grant sponsorship of those who were working on doctorates and dissertations in specialty fields of investigation are now in jeopardy. 

Amongst other devastation, Sandy's surging floodwaters destroyed research-in-progress at NYU's Hospital, its Langone Medical Center, School of Medicine, and NeuroScience Institute, drowning some experimental animal specimens, and swamping the Ehrman Medical Library where considerable damage was sustained by its building structure, IT infrastructure, and onsite print collection including archives. 

Via the mechanism of crowd-funding, TINC backers can help to meet this featured campaign's modest micro-financing goals and perhaps propose other aid projects for nano-specific underwriting.

Hearty, herculean, and collective efforts were swiftly undertaken on behalf of NYU through co-ordinated logistics to share inter-disciplinary resources, safekeep specimens, and re-establish translational scientific and biomedical progress by Weill Cornell Medical College, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania's Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and its Howard Hughes Medical Institute, M.I.T., Harvard, and the Rockefeller, Columbia, and Cornell medical centers.

Via its Core Research Facilities network of 300 institutions, the Science Exchange has embarked on significant and sustained post-hurricane efforts in its support of researchers who have suffered setbacks, whose own institutions may be closed, or are at capacity

To allow hurricane-affected researchers the continuation of their works by accessing outsourced experts and vetted providers, Science Exchange will WAIVE ALL MARKETPLACE FEES  through to 31 December 2012.

THIS CROSS-FACILITIES COLLECTIVE MAKES AVAILABLE TO AFFECTED NYC NANOSCIENTISTS THE FOLLOWING SAMPLES, EXPERIMENT-TYPES, SERVICES, & INSTRUMENTS: