Organization

The UNC Neuroscience Center is organized into Research Focus Areas that represent key areas in the neurosciences. Each focus area includes researchers with both basic and disease-related interests. Indeed, a key aspect of our mission is to facilitate the rapid integration of basic and disease-related research. The goal is to harness advances and use them to alleviate or cure neurological and psychiatric disorders that are so devastating to individuals and their families.

The UNC Neuroscience Center has several internal core facilities to expedite the mission of our researchers. These include a Functional Genomics Core for expression profiling of developmental and disease-related processes, an in situ hybridization core, and an Imaging Core that supports confocal and multiphoton microscopy, a vector construction core for mouse transgenesis and gene targeting, and an embryonic stem cell core.