Cryo-Electron Microscopy Core, NIDDK
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
📍 Bethesda, MD · Website ↗
The NIDDK Cryo-EM Core provides the NIDDK intramural community with equipment and training for negative stain and cryo-EM grid preparation and imaging. It operates a Glacios with a K3 camera and a Tecnai TF20 with a K2 camera in Building 8, and a T12 in Building 50, alongside plungers and a Chameleon vitrification device.
Cryo-Electron Microscopy Core, NIDDK 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
Contact providers directly. We don't broker quotes or pass on your details.
Equipment Inventory(4 instruments)
Roster verified against the facility's own published instrument list, September 2026.
chameleon
SPT Labtech
Glacios
Thermo Fisher Scientific · Single Particle / Screening
Tecnai F20
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Tecnai T12
Thermo Fisher Scientific