Congratulations to Dr. Eran Dayan on receiving an RO2 grant from (NICHD) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. They are providing funding ($404,276) for his project “Targeted Motor Learning to Improve Gait for Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease.”  Over the 2-year lifespan (05/01/2023 – 04/30/2025) of this project, Dayan will serve … Continued

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC-NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, have developed a new method that combines palmitoleic acid, gentamicin, and non-invasive ultrasound to help improve drug delivery in chronic wounds that have been infected with S. aureus. Using their new strategy, researchers including BRIC faculty member Dr. Paul Dayton, and Dr. Sarah … Continued

Congratulations to Dr. Hong Yuan, Director of the BRIC Small Animal Imaging facility, on her awarded S10 Grant for her project entitled, “Preclinical Vevo-F2 ultrasound imaging system for Small Animal Imaging core facility.” This $490K grant funds the installation of a preclinical ultrasound imaging system in BRIC’s Small Animal Imaging core facility. The new system … Continued

The Autism Research Center awarded three $25,000 pilot grants to several UNC School of Medicine faculty members on three interdisciplinary research projects, including one titled Developing brain-wide CSF flow imaging for infants at likelihood for autism, to BRIC faculty member and director of the Small Animal MRI facility Dr. Ian Shih in collaboration with Drs. … Continued

Join us Wednesday March 8th at 4:00pm EST for a presentation by Babak Behnam Azad, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences and Technical Director at the Center for Translational Molecular Imaging (CTMI) within the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine! Targeted Diagnostics and Therapeutics for Improved Disease Management Wednesday, March 8th 4:00 PM via … Continued

Human brain atlases can be used by medical professionals to track normative trends over time and pinpoint crucial aspects of early brain development. With these atlases, they are able to see what typical structural and functional development looks like, making it easier for them to spot the symptoms of abnormal development, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder … Continued

Earlier this year, researchers from Dr. Eva Telzer’s lab published their work in JAMA Pediatrics. Their exciting findings, which were covered not only locally by WRAL, but nationally by both CNN and The New York Times are summarized below. Congratulations to Dr. Telzer and her team! Social media platforms allow adolescents to have unprecedented opportunities … Continued

UNC School of Medicine scientists led by Gang Li, PhD, have mapped the surface of the cortex of the young human brain with unprecedented resolution, revealing the development of key functional regions from two months before birth to two years after. The new cortical development mapping, reported online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of … Continued

Dr. Stephanie Engel has accepted the position as the Associate Director of Imaging-based Population Sciences at the Biomedical Research Imaging Center Dr. Engel is a Professor in the UNC Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is also the Director, UNC Center for Early Life Exposures and Neurotoxicity (UNC CLEAN), Deputy Director, … Continued

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 relatively high spatial resolution and … Continued