Cryo-EM✗ Internal Only

NIH Intramural CryoEM Consortium (NICE)

National Institutes of Health

📍 Bethesda, MD · Website ↗

NICE is a trans-NIH intramural cryo-EM consortium coordinated through the NCI Office of Science and Technology Resources that serves intramural investigators in all NIH institutes and centers from Buildings 37, 33 and 50 on the Bethesda campus. Its instruments include a 300 kV Titan Krios with BioQuantum K3 in Building 37, a 200 kV Glacios with Selectris and Falcon 4i in Building 33, and a 120 kV Tecnai 12 with K2 Summit in Building 50.

NIH Intramural CryoEM Consortium (NICE) serves its own institution only. These can take outside samples:

Maryland facilities that take external users

Private providers that run samples

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Equipment Inventory(5 instruments)

Roster verified against the facility's own published instrument list, September 2026.

Vitrobot Mark IV

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Vitrification

Sample Prep
Configuration: Building 37

Leica EM GP2

Leica Microsystems · Vitrification

Sample Prep
Configuration: Building 37

Titan Krios

Thermo Fisher Scientific

TEM
Configuration: 300 kV, Gatan BioQuantum image filter, K3 direct electron detector, Building 37

Glacios

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Single Particle / Screening

TEM
Voltage: 200 kV
Configuration: 200 kV, Selectris image filter, Falcon 4i direct electron detector, Building 33

Tecnai T12

Thermo Fisher Scientific

TEM
Configuration: 120 kV, K2 Summit detector, cryo holders, Building 50