Alice,

I think you'll quickly find that user costs will never cover total costs of
running an image facility.  We here at CBIT charge $45/hour academic and
$100/hour industry.  Hundreds of users have been trained or serviced on our
4 confocals in the past 3 years.  Their user fees ($650/year per PI) don't
even cover the service contracts on the equipment.  Staff are covered by
grants and other funding, but establishing a facility like this can help
tremendously in obtaining grants (like SIG) to support the facility.  Just
my 2 pennies.

-Jason

Jason Kirk
Center for Biomedical Imaging Technology
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Ave.
Farmington, CT 06030
Ph: (860)679-4686
Fax: (860)679-1039
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Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 11:03 AM
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Subject: Re: Laser Cost


$10 - $25 per hour sounds fine to cover instrument costs.  But who pays your
salaries? Aren't you underrating the importance of trained staff when you
say that you can run a confocal instrument for $10 per hour?????  You need
to be sure to factor salaries into this hourly value......

Alice

Alice L. Givan
Englert Cell Analysis Laboratory
of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Dartmouth Medical School
Lebanon, New Hampshire NH 03756
tel 603-650-7661
fax 603-650-6130
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