Author Archives: Emily Page

Keely Muscatell recognized with three recent awards. Congratulations Dr. Muscatell! Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology, from American Psychological Association Early Career Award, from Social-Personality Health Network New Investigation Award, from the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society  

Louise Henderson Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) Title:     Southeastern Consortium for Lung Cancer Health Equity Site:       Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical University of South Carolina and UNC Goal:     To build on the long-standing community outreach and engagement efforts to develop  culturally-sensitive, community-informed interventions aimed at reducing lung cancer disparities and increasing...

Join us on Wedenesday, July 13th for the BRIC Seminar Series, featuring: Eric Muir, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Radiology Director, Preclinical MRI Center Stony Brook University MRI of the Retina Wednesday, July 13, 2022 at 11 AM Marsico Hall, Room 2004 Abstract: MRI can provide anatomical, functional, and physiological images at...

The Biomedical Research Imaging Center is pleased to announce the return of our yearly seminar series, beginning on Wednesday May 25th, 2022 with a presentation by Dr. Li Shen, Professor of Informatics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Join us via Zoom for Dr....

Transcriptome-wide association study on 211 brain structural traits Brain structural traits are highly heritable and have been linked to disease. Here the authors have used gene expression data to perform a transcriptome-wide association study on 211 brain structural traits, discovering 273 associated genes. We further validated the discovered genes using...

The Biomedical Research Imaging Center is excited to announce that Dr. Xiaopeng Zong will be appointed to the new role of BRIC’s MR Imaging Faculty Advisor. Many of you have already had experience working with Xiaopeng, who has extensive training and expertise in MR physics.  Xiaopeng completed his PhD in...

Congratulations to Eric Smith, the BRIC Director of Radiopharmacy, for being named a 2020 APhA Fellow by the American Pharmacists Association! The award recognizes member with outstanding professional achievements and service to the field of pharmacy. Dr. Smith is recognized by the association as a leader in nuclear pharmacy practice...

Congratulations to Martin MacKinnon, of the BRIC Center for Animal MRI, winner of the first annual Bruker MRI award at the 2020 ISMRM for his entry on i-ZTE fMRI! “It was a great experience to win the Bruker MRI award and be able to speak to the preclinical imaging community...

Congratualations to Dr. Ian Shih and then entire BRIC Center for Animal MRI team on the recently awarded S10 grant to upgrade the advance neo system on the Bruker 9.4T! Avance neo upgrade for the biospec 9.4T/30CM MRI system at UNC (NIH S10 MH124745, PI: Shih) Animal magnetic resonance imaging...

Dr. Amy Oldenburg, Professor in the UNC Physics & Astronomy Department and BRIC faculty member, was awarded a new grant for the development of a rapid, 3D laser scanning endoscope to study the upper airways of infants and children with subglottic stenosis (SGS), a life-threatening condition. The microscopic resolution afforded...