LABORATORIES

A number of basic laboratory equipments and more dedicated instruments are available to investigators associated with both academic institutions and industry. Instruments are accessible for direct, supervised or unsupervised use at the Facilities of the Centre with the assistance of dedicated personnel (i.e. “Reference person”). Users with documented experience on a specific instrument may access it without any assistance from the Centre’s personnel, according to the booking schemes associated with the Equipment.

COMT also serves as reference site for novel instruments for which no Italian distributor is currently available, or for instruments that investigators/potential customers would like to evaluate in a laboratory setting. In such cases, there is no charge involved for accessing the equipment, with the exception of reagents that may be necessary for the running of the instruments.

Laboratories dedicated to cell culture, cell cloning and cellular assays, basic and applied biochemistry, microscopy, post-genomics, proteomics, basic molecular biology, bacterial culture and histology are also accessible on an hourly, daily or weekly basis. Even in this case designated personnel of the Centre is available for assistance for optimal and efficacious utilization of the Facility. Experienced users may directly access the Facilities.

Procedures and costs for the access and utilization of Facilities and Equipments are diversified according for Internal and External users as specified. However, users are welcome to make propositions and individually negotiate the list prices. Direct access to Facilities and Equipments requires that the users are in possess of a proper insurance that fully covers their liability in case of accidents. In the price listing, "Internal price" and "External price" refer to the price charged to Internal or Externalusers respectively, as defined by the Centre’s dedicated Regulations.