#  Fiscal Year 2026 Fees 

 



## **Harvard Center for Biological Imaging**  
FY26 Fee Schedule  
(July 1, 2025 -June 30, 2026)

**Base rate:** hourly rate for experiments lasting 8 hours or less as determined by the researcher's cumulative hourly usage of HCBI microscopes (excludes Workstations, HOF, FS, and X-Clarity tissue clearing system usage) during the current fiscal year (July 1 -June 30). This is a volume discounting rate structure where hourly fees decrease the more the facility is used.

**Time-Lapse Discount:** experiments lasting longer than 8 hours will be charged the base rate for hours 0-8; hours thereafter will be billed at the time-lapse discount hourly rate.

**TIER 0 Microscopes:**  
TruLive 3D Lightsheet,

**TIER I Microscopes:**  
Z7 Lightsheet, 2-Photon, LSM confocals (except 700), ELYRA, Nikon and Yokogawa Spinning Disks, STED  
**TIER II Microscopes:**  
LSM 700 confocal, Axio Scans, Axio Zoom

**Internal Users (requires payment via 33-digit Harvard billing code)**

Sort**Tier****Rate (first 70 hours of usage)****Rate (hours 71-140)****Rate (hours>140)****Time-Lapse Discount**0

**$100.00**

**$85.00**

**$75.00**

**$5.00**

**I**

**$50.00**

**$40.00**

**$30.00**

**$5.00**

**II**

**$30.00**

**$20.00**

**$10.00**

**$5.00**





  
**Users from Harvard Affiliated Institutions & Hospitals**

Sort**Tier****Rate (first 70 hours of usage)****Rate (hours 71-140)****Rate (hours>140)****Time-Lapse Discount**0

**$150.00**

**$125.00**

**$115.00**

**$30.00**

**I**

**$75.00**

**$65.00**

**$55.00**

**$20.00**

**II**

**$50.00**

**$40.00**

**$30.00**

**$10.00**





  
**All External Users**

Sort**Tier****Rate (first 70 hours of usage)****Rate (hours 71-140)****Rate (hours>140)****Time-Lapse Discount**0

**$200.00**

**$170.00**

**$150.00**

**$30.00**

**I**

**$100.00**

**$80.00**

**$60.00**

**$30.00**

**II**

**$80.00**

**$60.00**

**$40.00**

**$20.00**





**MERSCOPE Spatial Transcriptomics System**

Sort**All Non-Profit Users****$150/day**





**X-Clarity Tissue Clearing System**

Sort**All Users****$50/24hrs\***





  
**3-day Workshop**

Sort**Harvard and Harvard affiliate: $250**

**External Academic and Commercial: $450**





**Cryo Electron Microscopy Equipment**

Glacios Cryo-EM

Sort**Internal Users**$50/hr**Harvard Affiliates**

**$75/hr**

**External Academic and Industry**

**$100/hr**





Wohlwend High Pressure Freezer

Sort**All Users****$175/24hrs**





Leica AFS Freeze substitution

Sort**All Users****$50/24hrs**





\*includes 1L of ETC solution.

Rates are subject to change as necessary to comply with HU Service Center Policy.

Fees are billed according to reserved time in SPINAL, the login/logout timestamp on the microscope acquisition computer, or a combination thereof (whichever is longer). Reservations can be canceled up to 15 minutes in advance. No-shows are billed at the full rate. Microscope damage/misuse is billable above hourly rates.