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Use core facilities
Being successful in starting a lab requires the ability to recognize and seize opportunities. One example is
using equipment and supplies available at your institution to support your research — namely core facilities.
Take advantage of these places as a great way to save money.
It's really important to choose a department or university that at
least has the basic, necessary equipment that you will need because
you can't spend all your money on that. You should not only talk to
people [at the institution] and let them tell you what they have, but
instead you should actually go there physically because you can be
really surprised sometimes.
Michal R. Szymanski
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In terms of what we choose to purchase versus what we can do in
core facilities, it is a combination of how immediately we would need
it versus how much it would cost to have it in our lab.
Miljan Simonovic
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