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National Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility (NCEF)

National Cancer Institute - Frederick

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The National Cryo-EM Facility at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, within FNL's Cancer Research Technology Program, provides no-cost high-resolution data collection to US cancer researchers. It operates two Thermo Fisher Titan Krios microscopes, each with a Falcon 3EC detector and a Gatan K3 behind a BioQuantum energy filter, with a Volta phase plate on one. The second Krios came online in 2020; the facility has run over 600 sessions for about 100 investigators at 50 institutions.

Equipment Inventory(1 instruments)

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

Titan Krios

×2

Thermo Fisher Scientific

TEM

Configuration: 300 kV; each equipped with Gatan K3 direct detector behind Gatan BioQuantum energy filter plus Falcon 3EC; Volta phase plate on one; first operational May 2017, second added 2020 (relocated from Gaithersburg)