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SURFE2R N1 Research Grant

Accelerating transporter research

Would you like to feel the easiness of transporter research with an instrument specially designed for the measurements of electrogenic transporters?

The SURFE2R N1 is made to bring sensitivity, speed, and easiness into your transporter research. No need for harsh radiolabeled compounds, time-consuming protocols, or worries about missing transporter currents due to their small amplitude.

We are giving you the opportunity to receive a SURFE2R N1 for 6 months in your lab, including consumables and assay development support, completely free of charge.

2026 Research Grant

Grant details

The SURFE²R N1 Research Grant returns in 2026, giving researchers worldwide the opportunity to bring a SURFE²R N1 into their lab for six months.

Applications are now open.

Application deadline: October 16, 2026.

The grant will be awarded through a competitive application process.

Register to access the application form

Why should you apply?

What will you do?

SURFE2R N1 enables comprehensive functional characterization of electrogenic membrane transport in real-time, offering heightened sensitivity and temporal resolution. It allows recordings from diverse membranes, including isolated membrane vesicles from native tissues or cultured cells, organellar membranes, and transporters reconstituted into proteoliposomes.

If you are looking for a sensitive instrument to measure small transporter currents, as those expected from secondary transporters, and want to study the function and inhibition of secondary transporters in a native-like environment without using radioligands and incease the speed and throughput of your research - this grant is for you!

 

What you receive

  • A SURFE²R N1 instrument in your lab for six months
  • Full training on the system
  • Consumables
  • Expert assay development support

How to apply?

Application process

The 2026 SURFE²R N1 Research Grant is open to researchers worldwide and will be awarded through a competitive application process.

Applications are now open.

The application deadline is October 16, 2026.

By registering, you will:

  • Access the SURFE²R N1 Research Grant application form
  • Get more information about SURFE²R N1 and how it can support your transporter research
  • Receive updates about the application process and important deadlines

Winners 2024: their story

In 2024, we were thrilled to receive an outstanding selection of applications for the SURFE2R N1 instrument grant. The quality of proposals made it a tough decision for our judges, but ultimately, two exceptional projects stood out. Congratulations to both winners!

We are excited to support their research and look forward to seeing their innovative work unfold.

"Dissecting the molecular determinants of membrane transport protein stability in membranes"

 

Dr. Janice Robertson's research group at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has been awarded the instrument grant for North America. They will use the SURFE2R to gain a fundamental and comprehensive understanding of what defines the stability of ion channels and transporters, as well as to identify new mechanisms of therapeutic modulation.

 

Watch the moment Janice discovered their proposal had been successful:

"Modulators of Drug Transporter Dynamics for Adjunct Therapies"

 

Dr. Chloé Martens' lab at the Université Libre de Bruxelles has been awarded the instrument grant for Europe. Their project focuses on identifying and designing modulators that either block or accelerate drug transport by influencing the conformational switching of transporters.

Watch the moment Chloé discovered their proposal had been successful:

 

Previous winners: their story

Success stories

Offering SURFE2R N1 research grants has become a tradition at Nanion, lasting since 2018. Many labs have benefited from this opportunity, and ultimately obtained their own systems.

Read the success stories of our previous SURFE2R N1 grant winners and learn how SURFE2R N1 accelerated their research!

"A SURFE2R will allow us to perform high-throughput experiments using multiple non-labeled compounds. With the SURFE2R setup we will be able to characterize the currents and kinetic parameters of diverse secondary transporters and pre-select inhibitory compounds that later will be studied using in vivo assays on bacterial pathogens"

Dr. Camilo Perez
School of Medicine
Chicago, USA

“We wanted to characterize the electrophysiological characteristics of our new family of transporters to find out properties such as Km and Vmax of the substrate, and ideally to screen a set of substrates for transporter activity. Electrophysiology with the SURFE²R N1 platform worked right away. We saw very robust currents in our pilot experiments during the initial training session on the instrument.”

Prof. Randy Stockbridge
University of Michigan
Michigan, USA "One of the great features of the SURFE2R N1 is that no radioligands are needed to measure transport function. Therefore, the SURFE2R N1 will provide the possibility to measure numerous substrates of low to high structural complexity without needing corresponding radioligands" Dr. Dimitrios Fotiadis
University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland

Questions?

Contact our specialist Dr. Cecilia George (Global Head of SURFE2R Sales / Senior Scientist). Cecilia and the SURFE2R N1 grant team are delighted to help you: