Our Service Packages

We offer three levels of service including bronze, silver and gold depending on your specific assay requirements. 

Bronze

Our bronze service is the most affordable and is aimed at researchers such as PhD students, RAs and postdocs who wish to work independently within the facility with their own samples.

The bronze service package provides each user with specialised training to be eligble for working in the facility independently. All necessary consumables and reagents, allocated machine time and continued research support will also be offered to each user. Bespoke assay types, methodolgocial development and assay optimisation are also possible. 

Included in the bronze service package

  • Project consultation
  • Training course using facility of choice
  • Assay Reagents and buffers
  • Consumables
  • Booked machine time and allocation
  • Ongoing staff support

Not included in the bronze service package

  • Experimental samples
  • Allocated staff labour
  • Data analysis

 

Silver

Our silver service is suited to researchers who are able to prepare their own samples for analysis but do not have time or warrant the need to run the assays themselves.

An experienced member of our academic and scientific research team will be allocated to running your experiments and supporintg the analysis of your data.

Included in the silver service package

  • Project consultation
  • Training course using facility of choice
  • Assay Reagents and buffers
  • Consumables
  • Booked machine time and allocation
  • Ongoing staff support
  • Allocated staff support for running assays 
  • Basic data analysis support
  • Academic consultancy service to assist with expeirmental design and advanced data analysis (optional) 

Not included in the silver service package

  • Experimental samples

 

Gold

Our gold package provides researchers the opportunity to run assays on samples that they are unable to prepare or have access to themselves.

This service is suited to external users who might not be in a position to culture their own cells or prepare their own tissue/samples for anlaysis in the facility.

The gold service includes everything from the silver service but with the added benefit of leaving the preparation of your samples in the capable hands of an experienced member of our academidc and scientific research team. 

Included in the gold service package

  • Project consultation
  • Training course using facility of choice
  • Assay Reagents and buffers
  • Consumables
  • Booked machine time and allocation
  • Ongoing staff support
  • Allocated staff support for running assays 
  • Basic analysis of raw data
  • Expeirmental sample preperation and culture
  • Academic consultancy service to assist with expeirmental design and advanced data analysis (optional) 

 

Further enquiries

For more information about how our facility can support your research please send any enquiries to j.p.barlow@bham.ac.uk. 

Please note we are very happy to provide quotations for grant applications.   

To Request our Services

Service Request Form