Multiscale Microscopy Core (MMC)
Oregon Health & Science University
📍 Portland, OR · Website ↗
The Multiscale Microscopy Core is OHSU's institutional electron microscopy core, located in the Robertson Life Sciences Building on the South Waterfront campus. It operates a Glacios cryo-TEM, a Tecnai T12 with iCorr, two Helios DualBeam FIB-SEMs (one with cryo stage), a VolumeScope II serial block-face SEM, a CorrSight CLEM system and a Vitrobot, and a Talos L120C was funded for installation in winter 2024. The NIH-funded Pacific Northwest Center for Cryo-EM (PNCC), which houses four Titan Krios, one Talos Arctica and a Glacios 2, is a separate national user facility in the same building operated by OHSU and PNNL and is accessed through peer-reviewed proposals, not through the MMC.
Equipment Inventory(13 instruments)
Roster verified against the facility's own published instrument list, September 2026.
Helios 5 UC DualBeam
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Helios NanoLab G3 DualBeam
FEI / Thermo Fisher Scientific
CorrSight
FEI / Thermo Fisher Scientific
Vitrobot Mark IV
Thermo Fisher Scientific · Vitrification
Leica EM FC7
Leica Microsystems · Cryo-Ultramicrotome
Wohlwend HPF
Wohlwend
Leica EM AFS2
Leica Microsystems · Freeze Substitution
Pelco easiGlow
Ted Pella · Glow Discharge
Leica EM ACE600
Leica Microsystems · Coater
Leica EM UC7
Leica Microsystems · Ultramicrotome
VolumeScope 2
Thermo Fisher Scientific · Serial Block-Face
Tecnai T12
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Glacios
Thermo Fisher Scientific · Single Particle / Screening
Published Rates
As published by the facility, retrieved Aug 10, 2026 · source. Rates change; confirm with the facility before budgeting.
| Service | Rate | Applies to | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glacios (with technician, hourly) | $176/hour | external | academic |
| Glacios (with technician, hourly) | $402/hour | industry | non-academic |
| Glacios (independent, hourly) | $77/hour | internal | FY24 |
| Glacios (with technician, hourly) | $153/hour | internal | FY24; internal academic |
| Tecnai T12 (independent, hourly) | $66/hour | internal | FY24 |
| Tecnai T12 (with technician, hourly) | $142/hour | internal | FY24 |