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Welcome to UNC Research Core Facilities

UNC Research Core Facilities are shared resources which offer a wide range of services to the research community, including cutting edge technologies, high end instrumentation, technical support, and education. Our facilities are committed to enhancing and expanding the collaborative capabilities of research at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Searchable Core Database

This searchable database lists all the cores in alphabetical order.
You can browse the entire list or use the search function to sort the entire listing either by broad categories, specific keywords, contact name, or equipment.

Core listings by Categories

These pages list our core facilities by general areas of focus: animal models, biochemistry, clinical and translational, genomics, imaging, and research support services. The pages include brief profiles of each core, giving an overview of each to assist the investigator identify the appropriate core to contact for their project. Cores by Categories

Core Facilities on PubMed
- Placental programming, perinatal inflammation, and neurodevelopment impairment among those born extremely preterm November 13, 2020
  Individuals born extremely preterm are at significant risk for impaired neurodevelopment. After discharge from the neonatal intensive care, associations between the child's well-being and factors in the home and social environment become increasingly apparent. Mothers' prenatal health and socioeconomic status are associated with neurodevelopmental outcomes, and emotional and behavioral problems. Research on early life risk […]
  Jacqueline T Bangma
- Tracheal aspirate transcriptomic and miRNA signatures of extreme premature birth with bronchopulmonary dysplasia November 12, 2020
  CONCLUSIONS: Specific mRNA-miRNA signatures in TAs may serve as biomarkers for BPD pathogenesis, a consequence of extreme prematurity.
  Christiana N Oji-Mmuo
- Identification of a primary antigenic target of epitope spreading in endemic pemphigus foliaceus November 7, 2020
  Epitope spreading is an important mechanism for the development of autoantibodies (autoAbs) in autoimmune diseases. The study of epitope spreading in human autoimmune diseases is limited due to the major challenge of identifying the initial/primary target epitopes on autoantigens in autoimmune diseases. We have been studying the development of autoAbs in an endemic human autoimmune […]
  Bin Peng
- Differences in [<sup>18</sup>F]FDG uptake in BAT of UCP1 -/- and UCP1 +/+ during adrenergic stimulation of non-shivering thermogenesis November 7, 2020
  CONCLUSIONS: [^(18)F]FDG uptake within adrenergically stimulated BAT of wild-type and UCP1-knockout mice can significantly vary such that an [^(18)F]FDG uptake threshold cannot be used to differentiate wild-type from UCP1-knockout mice. However, while an increase in BAT [^(18)F]FDG uptake during adrenergic stimulation is consistently observed in wild-type mice, in UCP1-knockout mice [^(18)F]FDG uptake in BAT seems […]
  Christian T McHugh
- Difficulty-aware hierarchical convolutional neural networks for deformable registration of brain MR images October 31, 2020
  The aim of deformable brain image registration is to align anatomical structures, which can potentially vary with large and complex deformations. Anatomical structures vary in size and shape, requiring the registration algorithm to estimate deformation fields at various degrees of complexity. Here, we present a difficulty-aware model based on an attention mechanism to automatically identify […]
  Yunzhi Huang