Service and Rate Card FY 2025-2026 (PDF)


FY 2025-2026 RADIATION AND FREE RADICAL RESEARCH SERVICES AND RATES
(Director overall responsible to CCOM/HCCC/P30 CCSG – Douglas R. Spitz, PhD)
Effective Date: October 1, 2025

General Fees: Consult Fee $116/hour 
Assessed at initial planning stage if recommended by service director. Fee includes consult with laboratory or physics specialist for project and experiment planning purposes. 

Weekend Hours will be assessed at 1.5 times the stated rates below. Please note that weekend hours are very limited and only available for crucial circumstances only. 

Cancellations: Full one-hour charged for cancellations within 24 hours of scheduled service. 

External Users: Users other than University of Iowa investigators enjoy these rates x 1.5.
The regular charges for non-UI members associated with the RFRRC can be negotiated. This will be assessed on a case-by-case basis and will be done at the discretion of the RFRRC and University of Iowa Department of Radiation Oncology.

**All users are invoiced for services rendered

Ionizing Radiation Services (IRS) 
Contact: Vahid Nasirian
vahid-nasirian@uiowa.edu 

Services 

X-Ray Cabinet 

  • CIX3, Xstrahl; Maximum Voltage: 320 kV
  • Maximum Field Size: 51.3 cm diameter at 70 cm FSD; Dose rate: 71.4 cGy/min

Small Animal Radiation Research Platform (SARRP) 

  •  Xstrahl, pre-clinical system; On-board high-resolution cone beam-CT imaging
  • Targeted beams with ≥3 mm field sizes; Maximum x-ray energy of 220 kVp
  • MuriPlan treatment planning software; Dose rate: 243 cGy/min  
  • Autoradiography, Chemiluminescence, and Fluorescence Rate for cleaning fee for barrier access (any service) $55 (no discount)

Radiabeam FLASH electron irradiator

  • 9 MeV electron beam
  • Maximum does rate: 77,000 Gy/s
  • Minimum does rate: 0.6 Gy/s
 
Base Rate
HCCC/CCOM Rate (30% Discount)
Rates: Xstrahl X-Ray Cabinet  
Appointment/ hour

$73

$51

Each subsequent hour if technician is not present

$19

$13

Rates: Xstrahl SARRP  
Appointment/ hour

$160

$112

Each Subsequent Hour if technician is not present

$67

$47

Rates: Radiabeam Flash Electron irradiator

(FLEX-9 FLASH linear accelerator)

  
Appointment/hour

$330

$231

 

Antioxidant Enzyme Services (AES) 
Contact: Dr. Spitz
douglas-spitz@uiowa.edu

 Services: 
The AES will carry out analysis of major antioxidant enzymes (i.e., CuZnSOD, MnSOD, EcSOD, CAT, GSTs, GGTs, GCS, and GPx), O2 • -, H2O2, and soluble small molecular weight thiols/redox couples [i.e., cysteine, -glutamylcysteine, homocysteine, N- acetylcysteine, GSH/GSSG, NADPH/NADP+, Trx(SH)2/TrxS2] and electron transport chain proteins as well as: 

  • Measure electron transport chain complex (I-V) activities with protein assays for normalization 44$/sample
  • Measure thiols/redox couples and antioxidant enzyme activities. CuZnSOD, MnSOD, EcSOD, CAT, GSTs, GGTs, GSH/GSSG, NADPH/NADP+, and GPx activities with protein assay for normalization 44$/sample
  • Measure immunoreactive protein for antioxidant enzymes. Cost of antibodies, supplies, and personnel (50$/hour)
  • Determine steady state levels of mRNA for redox biology proteins with quantitative PCR; Cost of primers, supplies, and personnel (50$/hour)
  • Transfect antioxidant enzyme sense and antisense cDNAs into user specified cell lines and characterize the alterations. Cost of supplies and personnel (50$/hour)
  • Maintain, develop, and provide reagents for the study of antioxidant/ pro-oxidant proteins and O2• -, H2O2 measurements in living cells and tissues: i.e., fluorescent probes, antibodies, cDNAs, vectors, and cell lines; Cost of supplies and personnel (50$/hour)
  • Antisense/siRNA/adenoviral/lentiviral reagents for antioxidant proteins; Cost of supplies and personnel (50$/hour)
  • Provide O2 environments at varying levels from 1% to 20% O2. Cost of supplies and personnel (50$/hour) 
ESR Facility Services and Rates 

Contact: Brett Wagner, brett-wagner@uiowa.edu, EMRB 68, Tel: 319-335-6749

A 30% discount is provided for instrument use by HCCC/CCOM members.

 Base RateHCCC/CCOM Rate
(~30% Discount)
ESR Instrument use (Standard configuration)$93h-1 $66h-1 
ESR Instrument use (Low temperature)$114h-1 $80h-1
Nitric Oxide Analyze
Set-up fee		$66h-1
$61h-1		$31h-1 
$43h-1
Beckman LS-50-B Fluorescence$44h-1 $31h-1 
Oxygen Monitor systems (YSI or Biostat)$18h-1   13h-1 

Seahorse Instrument


Supplies: Consumables

Mito reagents
 		$150h-1
(1.5-2.0h instrument time required )

$145(typical costs of plate and media)
 
$18 each 		$106h-1




 
Labor charges$110h-1$79 h-1


Small routine supplies necessary for “in facility” sample handing and preparation are included in the above. 

Specialty chemicals and supplies are charged at cost, which includes the labor cost for preparation to be user-ready. Because this is a pass-through expense, discounts are not normally available. 

For specific assays, such as vitamin C, vitamin E, or superoxide, charges are calculated by hour of instrument use plus appropriate analysis and labor costs. A 30% discount for the analysis of vitamin C in patient samples for UIHC/HCCC clinical trials is provided. 

Rates are based on anticipated costs for repair and upkeep, labor involved in calibration, quality control, and the cost of small supplies.