Author Archives: Kara Clissold

The Office of Research Technologies is excited to announce the Core Facility Staff Recognition Program is open for nominations. These awards recognize the value and importance of the staff in our biomedical research core facilities.  This program will offer up to three awards acknowledging the efforts and contributions of SHRA...

Hosted in Las Vegas, NV from March 23 – March 26, 2025, the Association for Biomedical Resource Facilities (ABRF) annual meeting brought together more than 900 core directors, staff, administrators, scientists, and vendor partners from around the United States (and beyond!) to provide a critical opportunity for education, connection, and...

In December 2024, Justin Fousek, a Research Systems Administrator II at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Bioinformatics Core, was awarded a Core Facility Staff Recognition Award in the area of Technical Achievement. His multiple nominators highlighted Justin’s ability to find creative, compliant, and effective solutions to a myriad of technical,...

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...

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...

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...

The UNC Core Facilities Staff Recognition Award program recognized three recipients for the Fall 2024 award cycle. Each award recipient will receive $1,000 and a feature on the Office of Research Technologies website. The program review committee congratulates all winners and thanks those who nominated core employees for these awards...

The UNC SOM Microscopy Services Laboratory (Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) houses the light sheet microscope responsible for two of the three winning images in the 2024 UNC SOM Art in Science competition which took place during Research Week 2024. Congrats to all of the scientists involved in the...