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POLICIES
NMR
Management Committee
All policies for the the
NMR Core are formulated in consultation with the NMR Management
Committee, which consists of faculty members with research
programs in NMR spectroscopy. The commitee meets on an as
needed basis.
Access to the NMR
Facility and its Services
The NMR facility is open
to all researchers from UCHSC and its affiliated institutions,
including other groups within the CU system. The NMR facility
is a Cancer Center Core facility, and members of the Cancer
Center are given priority in using the instruments. Private-sector
customers are also welcome to discuss use of the facility
with the facility director.
The NMR Core facility is
funded in part by the National Istitutes of Health. Therefore
all users of the facility are required to submit a short
annual report on their research efforts in the core. This
report should summarize the results obtained, all grants
that are dependent on the core facility and any publications
arising from use of the facility. This information is used
to ensure continued funding of the core.
Successful completion of
a BiSMaRC User Training Course by individuals responsible
for executing the NMR experiments will be required, unless
prior NMR experience can be demonstrated. This one week
training course will be held several times a year or whenever
there is sufficient demand.
Faculty, staff, and students
who have undergone user training and/or certification may
operate the instruments without direct supervision, provided:
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Financial responsibility is implicitly agreed to as
a result of this use (see below).
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Such use of the Center falls within the guidelines
for sponsored research at the in-house rates for UCHSC
research. The associated charges must be charged to
a valid UCHSC account.
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The only instrumental techniques attempted are routine
ones or are those for which the user has received relevent
instruction.
Only those who have been
issued a password and told by the NMR Manager that they
may operate the instruments unsupervised may do so.
Individuals who have not
undergone training and checkout may submit samples to be
run by qualified facility personnel at the in-house rates
plus an additional $20/hr that applies only to the time
the personnel are setting up the data acquisition or working
up the data (minimum 1 hr charge). This option is recommended
for users who have infrequent need for NMR data, or for
those who have temporary need of advanced techniques.
Private sector clients
who wish to use the NMR facility should BiSMaRC personnel,
even if they have arrangements with UCHSC personnel for
the performance of non-UCHSC research. Although some arrangements
with the private sector fall under the guidelines for "sponsored
UCHSC research," more often they do not.
Financial
Responsibility for Charges and Damages
Users are responsible for
applicable charges and for damage that results from samples
that are explosive, pressurized, chemically corrosive, radioactive,
biologically dangerous, or that otherwise pose unusual hazards
to instrumentation or personnel. In all such cases, prior
advice should be sought with regard to these special samples,
but permission does not absolve any user from responsibility
for harm their samples may cause the Center.
UCHSC researchers use the
Center with the understanding that the account used may
be charged up to $5000 for damages incurred as a result
of careless or negligent use of the instrumentation. This
obligation does not extend to responsibility for damage
that occurs accidentally and unavoidably during normal use.
Acknowledgements
All publications resulting from use of the NMR core facilities
must acknowlege use of the core. A suitable acknowledgement
would be "The NMR core facilities are funded by the
University of Colorado Comprehensive Cancer Center and the
UCHSC Program in Biomolecular Structure".
Use of the 800 MHz Spectrometer must also include the following
statement. "The 800 MHz NMR sectrometer was purchased
with funds provided the W.M. Keck Foundation"
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