Dr. SungHo Lee received a NIDA Phase I SBIR award with Actuated Medical Inc. This award is granted via the NIH HEAL Initiative, with Dr. Lee being the subcontract PI at UNC.

The Center for Animal MRI (CAMRI) at the BRIC received a $2M award from NIH High-End-Instrumentation program. This award will be used to purchase a new 9.4T-20cm MRI system from Burker Biospin.

Due to increased travel restrictions and concerns about COVID-19, the 2020 Triangle Imaging Symposium has been postponed indefinitely. We look forward to hosting you in the future!    Please join us for the fourth annual Triangle Imaging Symposium at BRIC! Wednesday March 11, 2020 8:30 am – 2:30 pm Room 1131 Bioinfomatics Click here to … Read more

Researchers led by Zibo Li, PhD, said their findings could make it possible to attach radioactive tags to compounds that previously have been difficult or even impossible to label.

The 2019 Triangle Imaging Symposium at UNC BRIC, will feature lectures by speakers from Johns Hopkins, UNC, Duke, NCSU and Wake Forest University and is open to the entire scientific community. The Symposium also includes a Poster Session with presentations given by students, trainees, residents, and faculty to highlight imaging research projects within and outside UNC. The symposium will take place on Wednesday, April 24th, 2019 beginning at 8:30 am in the Bioinformatics building, room 1131. Breakfast and lunch will be served for those who register in advance!

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex developmental disability, characterized by deficits in social interaction, language skills, repetitive stereotyped behaviors, and restricted interests.

Congratulations to Dr. Dinggang Shen, recently named a Fellow of The International Association for Pattern Recognition! The IAPR is an international association of non-profit, scientific or professional organizations concerned with pattern recognition, computer vision, and image processing, which aims to increase understanding among practitioners of all nations of the role that machine intelligence can play … Read more

Gabriel Dichter, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry in the UNC School of Medicine and adjunct associate professor of psychology and neuroscience in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences, is the principal investigator of a 5-year $2.5-million award as part of the Experimental Therapeutics Initiative of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

Dr. Louise Henderson, associate professor of radiology, and Dr. Ian Shih, associate professor of neurology and director of the Small Animal MRI facility at BRIC, were named as recipients of the third annual Yang Family Biomedical Scholars Award.

Earlier this year, a study proposed by Dr. Todd Cohen (PI) and Dr. Rick Meeker (Co-PI) was selected by the SOM for funding as ECBR grant award. The study is titled “Inflammation, Aging and Alzheimer Disease Vulnerability”. (Click Title to read more)