Cryo-EM Services: where to run a sample, and who processes the data
130 facilities at 127 universities, institutes and companies in 37 US states and abroad, including 8 private providers that run samples as a paid service. Instrument lists are checked against each facility's own pages, with published rates where the facility publishes them.
Already have data? Remote processing from $2,000, fixed before any work starts.
Get a processing quoteWho can run a cryo-EM sample for you
Two routes: a private provider that takes shipped samples and returns data (often a map), or a university core that accepts external users, where you book and pay for instrument time. Contact them directly; we don't broker quotes or pass on your details.
Private providers that run samples
Companies that run cryo-EM as a paid service: grids, data collection, and in several cases processing.
- Creative Biostructure ↗
Shirley, NY
Private providerDirectory page - FairJourney Biologics ↗
San Diego, CA
Private providerDirectory page - Helix Biostructures ↗
Indianapolis, IN
Private providerDirectory page - NanoImaging Services ↗
San Diego, CA
Private providerDirectory page - NovAliX ↗
Strasbourg, France
Private providerDirectory page - Proteros Biostructures ↗
Martinsried, Germany
Private providerDirectory page - Selvita (Cryo-EM Services) ↗
Cambridge, MA
Private providerDirectory page - Thermo Fisher Cryo-EM Drug Discovery Center ↗
South San Francisco, CA
Private providerDirectory page
University cores that take external users and publish rates
Their rate sheets list an external academic or industry price, so you can budget before you write.
- Boston University CryoEM Core Facility
Boston University Medical Campus · Boston, MA
External users · publishes rates - Leduc Bioimaging Facility (Brown BioMed Core Facilities)
Brown University · Providence, RI
External users · publishes rates - Multiscale Microscopy Core (MMC)
Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR
External users · publishes rates - Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility (Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences)
Pennsylvania State University, The · University Park, PA
External users · publishes rates - Evelyn Gruss Lipper Cryo-Electron Microscopy Resource Center (CEMRC)
Rockefeller University · New York, NY
External users · publishes rates - Cryo-EM Core (Sanford Burnham Prebys Shared Resources)
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute · La Jolla, CA
External users · publishes rates - Cal-Cryo @QB3-Berkeley
UC Berkeley · Berkeley, CA
External users · publishes rates - UAB Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility (CEMF)
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL
External users · publishes rates
6 more cores publish their rates; find them by state in the facility directory.
Equipment
Specifications, and which listed facilities run each model
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Other help we offer
- Grant and fellowship application review
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- RELION and cryoSPARC installation
Workstation installs from $500, clusters $1,500–3,000.
Guides & Resources
Cryo-EM Cost 2026
Krios time at internal, external and industry rates from facilities' published rate sheets, what a Krios costs to buy, and what processing adds.
Titan Krios vs. Glacios
When do you need 300 kV vs. 200 kV? Resolution, cost, and availability trade-offs.
Access Cryo-EM as External User
Step-by-step guide for researchers at institutions without cryo-EM capabilities.