Research Technologies Branch (RTB) Electron Microscopy
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
📍 Bethesda, MD · Website ↗
The NIAID Research Technologies Branch Microscopy Unit supports the structural imaging needs of Division of Intramural Research scientists at both the Bethesda campus and the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana. Its instruments include two 300 kV Titan Krios microscopes with Gatan K3 energy-filtered cameras, a 120 kV Tecnai, a Hitachi H-7800 120 kV TEM, a Helios G4 cryo-FIB-SEM and a Hitachi SU-8000 SEM.
Research Technologies Branch (RTB) Electron Microscopy serves its own institution only. These can take outside samples:
Maryland facilities that take external users
- The Beckman Center for Cryo-EM at Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD
External users - National Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility (NCEF)
National Cancer Institute - Frederick · Frederick, MD
External users
Private providers that run samples
- 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
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Equipment Inventory(5 instruments)
Roster verified against the facility's own published instrument list, September 2026.
Helios G4
Thermo Fisher Scientific
SU-8000
Hitachi
Titan Krios
×2Thermo Fisher Scientific
Tecnai T12
Thermo Fisher Scientific
HT7800
Hitachi