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.

The BRIC Small Animal Imaging (SAI) core facility has recently received a new animal ultrasound imaging system through a NIH S10 shared instrumentation grant (S10-OD034328). The new system, Vevo-F2, will replace the old Vevo-2100 system that has been serving more than 25 research labs in our community. The new system greatly enhances animal ultrasound imaging …

During University Research Week, the labs of Dirk Dittmer, PhD, Jack Griffith, PhD, and Joshua Strauss, PhD, won the Art-in-Science Competition held by the UNC School of Medicine Office of Research. Dr. Dittmer leads the LCCC Vironomics Core, while Dr. Strauss directs the UNC Cryo-EM Core Facility. Sponsored by the Office of the Vice …

Dr. Ralph House is pictured receiving the 2023 Governor's Award for Excellence

Congratulations to Dr. Ralph House, Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, on receiving the 2023 Governor’s Award for Excellence for his work with Chemists Without Borders! “House received the Human Relations award for his numerous global contributions through his voluntary role as vice president for …

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Office of Research Technologies

ORT oversees core services and administration, maintains the Core Facility Advocacy Committee, provides funding opportunities to cores, and more. Though ORT is situated within the UNC School of Medicine we are a resource for ALL UNC Chapel HiIl cores.

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Recent Publications supported by UNC Core Facilities
- Perceived vs Actual Shared Decision-Making Behavior Among Urologists: A Convergent, Parallel, Mixed-Methods Study of Self-Reported Practice November 23, 2023
  CONCLUSION: Most urologists report performing SDM as supported by its thematic presence in surgical decision-making. However, only a minority use validated prediction tools and urologists infrequently mention specific SDM components. This discrepancy provides an opportunity to explore how urologists perform SDM and can be used to support integrated strategies to implement SDM more effectively in […]
  Giulia M Ippolito
- Aberrant dynamic functional network connectivity in type 2 diabetes mellitus individuals November 16, 2023
  An increasing number of recent brain imaging studies are dedicated to understanding the neuro mechanism of cognitive impairment in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) individuals. In contrast to efforts to date that are limited to static functional connectivity, here we investigate abnormal connectivity in T2DM individuals by characterizing the time-varying properties of brain functional networks. […]
  Wenjiao Lyu
- Noninvasive Monitoring of Immunotherapy in Lung Cancer by Lymphocyte Activation Gene 3 PET Imaging of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes November 16, 2023
  Although immunotherapy has revolutionized the entire cancer treatment landscape, small fractions of patients respond to immunotherapy. Early identification of responders may improve patient management during immunotherapy. In this study, we evaluated a PET approach for monitoring immunotherapy in lung cancer by imaging the upregulation of lymphocyte activation gene 3 (LAG-3)-expressing (LAG-3^(+)) tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). Methods: […]
  Zhen Quan

New Instrumentation! Vevo-F2 Preclinical Imaging System in the BRIC Small Animal Imaging Facility

Strauss, Dittmer Among Winners of 2023 Art in Science Competition

Dr. Ralph House Receives 2023 Governor’s Award for Excellence

Recent Publications supported by UNC Core Facilities

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