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Billing

Researchers must be trained by FAS Center staff before using any of our instrumentation.  This training is available for a nominal fee. The FAS Center also offers a limited amount of fee-for-service work for Affymetrix microarrays and flow cytometry. Before beginning a training session or submitting your samples for processing, you must provide your billing information by following the instructions below.

Researchers at Harvard University

1. Please have your department's financial administrator complete the billing form.
2. On the billing form, you must provide a 33-digit Harvard accounting number. If funding is received from an external grant, please also provide the expiration date of the funding period.
3. Your financial administrator must email or fax this document to the staff member who will be providing the training or processing your samples (fax: 617-495-2196). NOTE: This email/fax serves as your department's approval to charge the fees that incur to the grant number that they provided. Therefore, please do not email the information yourself.
4. We will keep this account number on file and charge future work to this same account. It is your responsibility to notify us if you wish to change the 33-digit account charged.

Researchers from Harvard-Affiliated Institutions

1. Please have your department's financial administrator complete the billing form.
2. You must provide an approved PO-number on Accounts Payable letterhead before beginning any work. An e-mail confirmation copy is NOT sufficient. Make sure that the name and address of the vendor is specified as:
   • FAS Center for Systems Biology
     Harvard University
     Bauer Laboratory
     7 Divinity Ave
     Cambridge, MA 02138
3. Your financial administrator must email or fax the billing form and PO-number to the staff member who will be providing the training or processing your samples (fax: 617-495-2196). NOTE: This email serves as your department's approval to charge the fees that incur to the PO-number that they provided. Therefore, please do not email the information yourself.

For billing questions contact Elizabeth Shepard (617-495-8779, elizabeth@cgr.harvard.edu).

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