In most academic biomedical research institutions, shared resource facilities exist to provide researchers access to state-of-the-art technologies. The services offered through these facilities are extremely valuable to advancing the research programs of investigators either by generating data for testing or developing scientific hypotheses. At the 2009 Southeast Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Regional Meeting held in Charleston, South Carolina on November 10th, I was a panelist in a session focusing on shared resource facilities. Based on my 13 years of experience as a director of shared resource facilities at the Medical University of South Carolina (http://proteogenomics.musc.edu/), I talked about issues related to sustaining financial support for shared resource facilities and incentivizing their use.
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