The Biomedical Research Imaging Center supports the research efforts of its faculty members and other researchers from across UNC, including the School of Medicine, School of Pharmacy, and School of Public Health. A current list of NIH funded grants to BRIC faculty at UNC-CH can be found at Current NIH Funded Grants at BRIC.
2 years ago
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 …
2 years ago
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 …
2 years ago
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. …
2 years ago
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 from Machine Learning in Medical Imaging …
2 years ago
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. Muyun Xu got the 1st …
3 years ago
Sarah Nyante was recently selected for the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Research Council of Early Career Investigators in Imaging (CECI²). Congratulations Dr. Nyante!