Imaging Core Facility Usage Fees

Fees for use of equipment and services have been established in accordance with GW’s policy on Interdepartmental Service Centers and Recharge Centers and with consultation and approval by the GW Office of the Comptroller. The fees are established to be competitive with similar resources.

Equipment

  Internal user
Daytime
(per hour)
Internal user
Night or weekend
(per hour)
External user
Not-for-profit*
(per hour)
External user
Commercial*
(per hour)
Confocal Microscopy $32.00 $17.00 $48.80 $96.00
Zeiss Spinning Disk Confocal $42.00 $26.00 $64.05 $126.00
Talos F200X TEM $50.00 $42.00 $76.25 $150.00
Scanning Electron Microscope $35.00 $25.00 $53.38 $105.00
Leica TCS SP8 Multiphoton $50.00 $45.00 $76.25 $150.00
DMi8 Inverted Microscope $53.00 $37.00 $80.83 $159.00
FEI Helios FIB SEM $80.00 $75.00 $122.00 $240.00
Workstation Use $30.00 $15.00 $45.60 $90.00

*GWNIC access for external users is only available during daytime hours.

Training & Consultation

  Internal user
(per hour)
External user
Not-for-profit
(per hour)
External user
Commercial
(per hour)
Training & Consultation* $30.00 $45.75 $90.00

*District of Columbia Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (DC-IDDRC) investigators are not charged training and consultation fees, as those are included as part of National Institutes of Health (NIH) Project U54HD090257, or after July 1, 2021 by NIH Project P50HD105328.