Fee Summary

Fees are charged for screens and equipment use at ICCB-Longwood. These fees help us to recover a portion of our operating expenses. ICCB-Longwood fees (and associated Facilities and Administration fees) are revised annually based upon the Harvard Fiscal Year (July 1 – June 30). The fee structure is updated on the ICCB-Longwood website as soon as it is available. All charges are based on the fee at the time of service, not a previously provided estimate or price structure from a previous fiscal year.

Fees below represent the rates for FY26 (July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026).

Screening fees do not include the cost of assay reagents and consumables. Funding for all assay reagents and consumables (excluding library) is provided by the screener.

HMS charges a Facilities and Administration (F&A) fee to all labs whose grants do not go through Harvard.

Instrument Training and Use

Investigators not conducting a small molecule or functional genomics screen at ICCB-L are welcome to use equipment to conduct their own experiments in microplate format. Scientists are charged a one-time training fee for each instrument they are trained on.

Independent instrument use is charged hourly based on reserved and actual time used. Session cancellations must be made at least 24 hours in advance to avoid being charged. PPMS is used for instrument reservations and calculates the time used.

 

Training Fees

Instrument                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Academic Industry  F&A        
All except high-content microscopes
$154
$347
$31
HCS.ai, IXM-C, IXM-C LZR, or Acumen
$362
$814
$73

 

Hourly Use Charges

Instrument                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Academic Industry  F&A        
Echo
$80
$180
$16
Echo at non-peak hours (6 PM to 8 AM on weekdays and all weekend)
$50
$113
$10
EnVision
$30
$68
$6
FlexStation
$30
$68
$6
HPD300
$18
$41
$4
HCS.ai, IXM-C, IXM-C LZR
$50
$113
$10
qPCR
$28
$63
$6
User Bravo
$80
$180
$16
Acumen
$39
$87
$8

 

Annual Access

Instrument                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Academic Industry  F&A        
Combi
$320
$720
$64
PlateLoc
$320
$720
$64
Plate Washer
$320
$720
$64

 

Custom Lab Automation Projects

Custom Lab Automation Projects                                                                                                                                                                                Academic Industry  F&A        
Hourly Charge
$130
$291
$26

Custom lab automation projects can be performed by ICCB-L team members. Hourly time charged includes planning, consultation, and program calibration at ICCB-L, in addition to the actual automation. Partial hours are rounded up to the next hour.

Small Molecule Screening

Screening Fee Milestones                                                                                                                                                                                        Academic Industry  F&A       
Set up
$6,336
$14,256
$1,268
Up to 5k experimental wells
$3,168
$7,128
$634
5,001-10,000 experimental wells
$2,640
$5,940
$528
10,001-25,000 experimental wells
$3,696
$8,316
$740
25,001-50,000 experimental wells
$5,280
$11,880
$1,056
50,001-100,000 experimental wells
$5,280
$11,880
$1,056
Additional increments of 100,000 experimental wells
$7,841
$17,643
$1,569

The above fees include a cherry pick of 1.5 uL of up to 0.3% of the compounds screened. Additional cherry picks at a volume of 1.5 uL/compound can be requested at $5 per compound (academic pricing).

Functional Genomics Screening

Screening Fee Milestones                                                                                                                                                                                        Academic Industry  F&A        
Set up
$6,336
$14,256
$1,268
Synthego Druggable sgRNA CRISPR library (29 plates)
$8,816
$19,836
$1,764
Full genome siRNA library (66 plates)
$20,063
$45,141
$4,013
Per library plate
$304
$684
$61
lncRNA siRNA library (7 plates)
$2,128
$4,788
$426
miRNA library (5 plates)
$1,520
$3,420
$304
GPCR, Ion Channel, Protease or Ubiquitin siRNA library (2 plates)
$608
$1,368
$122
 Kinase siRNA library (3 plates)
$912
$2,052
$183

The above fees for screening the full siRNA genome include cherry picks for the individual siRNA duplexes corresponding to 300 genes per screen (1200 duplexes for Dharmacon genome, 900 duplexes for an Ambion screen). Additional cherry picks can be requested at $4 per duplex picked / $16 per gene (academic pricing). The duplex volume provided is the same volume of SMARTpool reagents that were used in the primary screen.

The above full druggable sgRNA CRISPR fee includes a cherry pick of 150 sgRNAs for each screen.