Bruker Corporation announced that it has received orders for two 1.1 GHz NMR Avance Neo systems from U.S. academic institutions funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF awarded the funds to establish the Network for Advanced NMR (NAN) linking three institutions including the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, the University of Georgia and University of Wisconsin–Madison. NAN is a novel consortium with the goal to establish a distributed network of ultra-high field NMR spectrometers that tackle important and diverse scientific problems and train the next generation of life and materials scientists. The NAN consortium will operate with a ‘hub and spoke’ model that dynamically adapts to meet evolving scientific and disease biology research needs. The hub at the University of Connecticut will facilitate access to state-of-the-art NMR instrumentation, experimental protocols, and expertise from US researchers. One 1.1 GHz NMR system will be installed at University of Wisconsin - Madison for solid-state NMR research, while the second system will be installed at the University of Georgia for solution-state NMR studies. The NAN consortium offers user support and training through community outreach and an extensive knowledge base of online tutorials, protocols, NMR pulse sequences, and technical materials.