Alerted connectivity in brain networks may turn them more sensitive to environmental insults and disease. In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) PhD student William Stanford, and BRIC member Eran Dayan investigated if brain resilience accounts for differences in cognitive function in healthy aging. This was achieved … Read more

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 … Read more

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, … Read more

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 … Read more

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. Shen’s talk, followed by an … Read more

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 multiple methods. The paper was … Read more

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 condensed matter physics using MR … Read more

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 and for building bridges among … Read more

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 alongside leaders in the field.” … Read more

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 (MRI) research at the University … Read more