Location
Chicago, Illinois
4 Instruments
Feinberg School of Medicine core that opened in August 2025 in the sub-basement of the Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center (303 E Superior St, SB-820, Chicago), led by Orhi Esarte Palomero. It operates a Glacios 2 cryo-TEM (X-FEG 200 kV, fringe-free imaging, AFIS, Selectris energy filter, Falcon 4i detector) for screening and data acquisition, with a Vitrobot Mark IV and Leica EM GP2 for plunge freezing and a processing workstation. Services are booked through NUcore as unassisted Glacios time, assisted Glacios 2 sessions, consultation and training.
Orders are placed through NUcore (https://nucore.northwestern.edu/facilities/FACET); the launch article describes access for Northwestern investigators and no external-user statement was found.
TEM
Glacios 2
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Sample Prep
Leica EM GP2
Leica Microsystems
Sample Prep
Vitrobot Mark IV
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Other
GPU Processing Workstation
Custom
Other Illinois facilities that take external users
- University of Chicago Advanced Electron Microscopy Core Facility
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL
External users · publishes rates - MRL Cryo-EM Laboratory (Materials Research Laboratory Electron Microscopy Core)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Champaign, IL
External users
Private providers that run samples
Companies that run cryo-EM as a paid service: you ship a sample, they prepare grids and collect data, and several also process it.
- 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
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