Recharge Rates

Recharge Rates for Flow Cytometry, Cell Sorting & Microscopy 2024-25

Services Units Internal/Affiliate Rates External Rates
Cytometry (Analysis) hour $95.69 $150.71
With operator assistance hour $250.86 $395.10
Flow Cytometry (Sorting) hour $113.24 $178.35
With operator assistance     hour $268.41 $422.74
Microscopy- Spinning Disk confocal hour $40.24 $63.38 
With operator assistance hour $195.41 $304.77 
Microscopy- Point scanner confocal and Multiphoton hour $60.20  $94.92 
With operator assistance hour $215.44  $339.31
Microscopy-basic hour $21.40 $33.71
With operator assistance hour $176.57 $278.10
Laser microdissection hour $333.28 $524.92
With operator assistance hour $488.45 $769.31
Microscopy-high throughput hour $80.27 $126.43
Analysis workstation hour $10.56 $16.64
Operation/Training hour $155.17 244.39

*Note on Instrument Time with Operator Assistance: If you require Operator Assistance for an instrument, the rate for “Instrument Operation/Training” will be added to the rate of the instrument you are reserving.

 

Recharge Rates for Genome Services 2024-25

Services Units Internal Rates Affiliate Rates** External Rates*
Bioanalyzer hour $29.13 $33.50 $51.39
Nucleofector hour $43.35 $56.18 $86.18
QPCR hour $43.93 $54.40 $83.45
Nanostring GeoMx hour $199.52 $290.00 $444.84
Nanostring nCounter run $322.51 $503.05 $771.63
Technician Time hour $165.22 $221.96 $340.46
10X-Xenium run $861.30 $990.49 $1519.33
MagicPrep run $156.39 $179.85 $275.87

* includes 40% surplus revenue and 26% facilities and administration rate
** includes 15% surplus revenue

 

User Definitions

Internal users are funded by UCSF sources (or other UC campus sources) and provide a valid fund-DPA for payment. Co-pay may apply to HDFCCC members.

*Affiliate users are funded by non-UC sources and pay by check, but the funding is provided by a recognized UCSF affiliate (SFGH, SFVAMC, NCIRE, Gallo, Gladstone, HHMI, or LBNL).

**External users are funded by non-UC sources and pay by check.

Acknowledgement & Co-Authorship

Please include an acknowledgement any time the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center LCA and LCA-Genomic Core Facility provides services that support your research. Please reference grant number P30CA082103.

If a staff member has made a significant intellectual contribution beyond routine sample analysis, please consider co-authorship. We encourage you to follow the guidelines published by the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) for consideration of any facility staff member as an author.