Category: Biomedical Research Imaging Center

Since 2003, Thatcher Carr experiences an average of 85 seizures per month. The 46-year-old boat mechanic has a type of epilepsy that causes his muscles to freeze and stop speaking, as if trapped in his own body. “I was so angry and embarrassed, honestly,” said Carr. “It took so much...

The Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC) and the Department of Radiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are pleased to host the upcoming meeting of the 7T Translational Alliance in North America (7T TANA). The meeting will take place on July 27, 2026, at UNC–Chapel Hill. This year’s...

Congratulations Mingxia Liu, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and BRIC; Director, Machine Intelligence in Biomedical Computing Lab; and Co-Director, Radiological Sciences Faculty Development. Mingxia Liu received the Outstanding Area Chair Award from the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2023). She and her colleagues also won the Best Paper Award...

At the 2023 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) meeting in Chicago, trainees in the BRIC Director of Radiochemisty Research Dr. Zibo Li’s lab received awards. Dr. Xuedan Wu got the highly competitive M. J. Welch Postdoc travel award, and 1st place in CASNMMI Young Investigator Award. Dr....

Dr. Hongtu Zhu, a BRIC faculty member and his team recently published a paper in Science (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn6598).  They used advanced techniques to study the brain and its connection with the rest of the body. Traditional brain imaging methods often overlook the interaction between the brain and other organs. In a...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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,...