Funding
The MBCF is for the most part funded as a straight fee for service chargeback core facility. At times other sources of funding for research and development or expansion are incorporated into the overall budget.
- From 1986 to 1999 the MBCF was part of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center grant funded by the National Cancer Institute of NIH.
- From 1989 to 2004 the MBCF was part of the Harvard Medical School Center for AIDS Research (HMS CFAR).
- From 2004 to the present the MBCF has been part of the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research (HU CFAR).
- The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) has funded several instruments through Shared Instrumentation Grants.
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