Cell & Molecular Imaging Pricing

Base rates are for microscope use only by trained MUSC users. Hollings Cancer Center members, Digestive Disease Research Core Center (DDRCC) members, Center for Redox Biology and Signaling members and COBRE Digestive Liver Disease (CDLD) investigators receive a 25% subsidy. After-hours rates apply except for 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. For continuous use longer than two hours, rates decrease by 50%, and after four hours of usage, rates decrease to 25%. Staff assistance/training includes hourly microscope charges.

                               Base rates for microscope use

Microscope	Base Rate/Hour	Subsidy Rate/Hour	After-Hours Rate/Hour	After-Hours Subsidy Rate/Hour
Leica TauSTED Xtend   (521C Drug Discovery)	$40	$30	$20	$15
Zeiss LSM 880 NLO  (521E Drug Discovery)	$40	$30	$20	$15
Olympus FV1200 MPE (521D Drug Discovery)	$40	$30	$20	$15
Andor BC43 Spinning Disk Confocal             (521E Drug Discovery)	$40	$30	$20	$15
Olympus FV10i LIV (527A Drug Discovery)	$40	$30	$20	$15
Zeiss LSM 510 META (504 HCC Building)	$20	$15	$10	$7.50
BD CARV II (526 Drug Discovery)	$20	$15	$10	$7.50
Imaris (502 Drug Discovery)	$10	$7.50	$5	$3.75
Huygens (502 Drug Discovery)	$10	$7.50	$5	$3.75
Assistance/Training by Staff	$90	$67.50	n/a	n/a