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.

All cores are observing COVID-19 safety precautions, including physical distancing and use of personal protective equipment. Please contact each core directly for their current status and updates to their operational procedures.

See below information from the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) concerning RSC rate increases. If your core’s rates are increasing or you receive pushback from.a customer about rate increases, you may wish to refer customers to the following: The University administers Research Service Centers (RSC/Core Facilities) according to Federal costing standards, as well as State and …

Congrats to ORT’s own Dr. Christopher Gregory on the publication of : “Addressing the Environmental Impact of Science Through a More Rigorous, Reproducible, and Sustainable Conduct of Research” in the Journal of Biomolecular Technique. The importance of core facilities can be felt far beyond the research enterprise. This article highlights the role core facilities/shared resources …

UNC Health’s News Room recently highlighted a Nature Communications article authored by our own Blossom Damania, PhD (Vice Dean for Research in the School of Medicine and Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Immunology) and Dirk Dittmer, PhD (Director of the Vironomics Core and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology). The original article is copied below. …

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Recent Publications supported by UNC Core Facilities
- Feasibility of free-breathing <sup>19</sup> F MRI image acquisition to characterize ventilation defects in CF and healthy volunteers at wash-in March 13, 2023
  CONCLUSION: Free-breathing ^(19) F lung MRI VDP analysis was feasible and highly correlated with breath-hold measurements. Free-breathing methods are expected to increase patient comfort and extend ventilation MRI use to patients who are unable to perform breath holds, including younger subjects and those with more severe lung disease.
  Sang Hun Chung
- Erratum to "Bilateral cerebellar hemorrhagic infarcts as an early presentation following opioid-induced toxic encephalopathy in an adult patient" [Radiology Case Reports 16 (2021) 1207-1210] March 10, 2023
  [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.radcr.2021.02.073.].
  Umer Ahmed
- Accumulation of network redundancy marks the early stage of Alzheimer's disease March 10, 2023
  Brain wiring redundancy counteracts aging-related cognitive decline by reserving additional communication channels as a neuroprotective mechanism. Such a mechanism plays a potentially important role in maintaining cognitive function during the early stages of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). AD is characterized by severe cognitive decline and involves a long prodromal stage of mild […]
  Maryam Ghanbari

All cores are observing COVID-19 safety precautions, including physical distancing and use of personal protective equipment. Please contact each core directly for their current status and updates to their operational procedures.

OSP Issues Statement on RSC Rate Increases

New article on the role of core facilities in environmental sustainability co-authored by Dr. Chris Gregory from ORT

Damania and Dittmer Featured for Research on How Cancer-Causing Viruses Evade Immune Responses

Recent Publications supported by UNC Core Facilities

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Core Facility Staff Workshops: Intellectual Property and Reports of Invention for Core Facilities