ADVANCING DISCOVERY WITH TWO NEW MASS SPECTROMETERS

Two new scientific instruments will let researchers measure the weight of molecules and advance our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease, addiction, soil microbes and contaminants like per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, and more.

The ThermoFisher Orbitrap Ascend Tribrid mass spectrometer, funded by a $1.1 million National Science Foundation grant secured by Feixia Chu, professor of molecular, cellular, and biomedical sciences, and the ThermoFisher Orbitrap Exploris 120, funded by a USDA grant to Stuart Grandy, professor of soil biogeochemistry and fertility, and Paula Mouser, professor of civil and environmental engineering, will reside at the University Instrumentation Center in Parsons Hall. The two state-of-the-art instruments will be accessible not only to the three principal investigators but also to researchers within and beyond UNH, who will use them to tackle a wide range of biological questions they previously could not answer.