Multi-Institute Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility (MICEF)
National Institutes of Health
📍 Bethesda, MD · Website ↗
MICEF is a collaborative NIH intramural cryo-EM facility administered by NIDDK that serves the NHLBI, NIDDK, NIAMS and NINDS scientific communities, with microscopes in Buildings 13 and 50 on the Bethesda campus. It houses two Titan Krios microscopes with GIF Quantum K2 systems, a Glacios and an Aquilos cryo-FIB, and is distinct from the NIDDK-only Cryo-EM Core in Building 8.
Multi-Institute Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility (MICEF) 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(3 instruments)
Roster verified against the facility's own published instrument list, September 2026.
Aquilos
Thermo Fisher Scientific · Cryo-FIB Milling
Glacios
Thermo Fisher Scientific · Single Particle / Screening
Titan Krios
×2Thermo Fisher Scientific