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.

Press Release from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research: In alignment with the goals of Carolina’s Strategic Research Roadmap, effective January 1, 2025, UNC core facilities will charge internal breakeven rates to all UNC System institutions. Carolina’s Strategic Research Roadmap, a comprehensive plan launched earlier this year, established goals to enhance UNC’s research assets and maximize the impact and value …

The Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) is offering $3,000 pilot awards for services with the Clinical Genomic Analysis (GENYSIS) Core Facility. GENYSIS is a research service that collaborates with the BioSpecimen Processing (BSP) facility, the High-Throughput Sequencing Facility (HTSF), and the McLendon Molecular Genetics Laboratory (MGL), enabling researchers to offer validated reporting of clinically …

Congratulations to Mandy Bush, Director of the Respiratory TRACTS Core in the Marsico Lung Institute, on her new additional role as the Director of Research Operations at the UNC Adams School of Dentistry where she previously served as the Research Program Manager since 2022. In her new role she will work closely with the Associate …

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Recent Publications supported by UNC Core Facilities
- Revealing excitation-inhibition imbalance in Alzheimer's disease using multiscale neural model inversion of resting-state functional MRI January 15, 2025
  CONCLUSIONS: Our study constitutes an important attempt to delineate E-I imbalance in large-scale neuronal circuits during AD progression, which may facilitate the development of new treatment paradigms to restore physiological E-I balance in AD.
  Guoshi Li
- Symmetric deformable registration of multimodal brain magnetic resonance images via appearance residuals January 12, 2025
  CONCLUSIONS: Our residual space-guided registration framework, combined with GAN-based image enhancement, provides an effective solution to the challenges of multimodal deformable registration. By mitigating intensity distribution discrepancies and improving image quality, this approach improves registration accuracy and strengthens its potential for clinical application.
  Yunzhi Huang
- Role of data-driven regional growth model in shaping brain folding patterns January 10, 2025
  The surface morphology of the developing mammalian brain is crucial for understanding brain function and dysfunction. Computational modeling offers valuable insights into the underlying mechanisms for early brain folding. Recent findings indicate significant regional variations in brain tissue growth, while the role of these variations in cortical development remains unclear. In this study, we explored […]
  Jixin Hou

UNC Core Facilities to Honor Internal Pricing to All UNC System Institutions

PPMH Offering $3,000 Pilot Awards for GENYSIS Core Facility Services

Respiratory TRACTS Core Director Mandy Bush Also Named Director of Research Operations in the Adams School of Dentistry

Recent Publications supported by UNC Core Facilities

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