Category: News

We are excited to announce the launch of Carolina Microscopy ! This single core unifies the four departmental microscopy cores — the Biology Microscopy Core (College of Arts & Sciences), the Hooker Imaging Core (Cell Biology & Physiology), Microscopy Services Laboratory Core (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine), and Neuroscience Microscopy Core (Neuroscience Center) —  under the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR). This change...

DaVetta Pulley, a Research Support Technician in the National Gnotobiotic Rodent Resource Center, has been named the recipient of the Fall/Winter 2025 Core Staff Recognition Award in the Technical Achievement category. Over eight years in the Division of Comparative Medicine, she’s become a technical expert whose work has directly enabled...

Elevating Research Excellence: Nivedita Pareek Honored with UNC Core Staff Recognition Award Nivedita (Nivi) Pareek, the Microbiome Core Manager at the UNC School of Medicine, has been awarded the Performance Excellence award as part of the UNC Research Core Facilities Staff Recognition Program. Since joining the Microbiome Core in 2022...

Dr. Venkata Chirasani, Director of the R.L. Juliano Structural Bioinformatics Core, was recently highlighted in the Fall 2025 Volume 21 Issue 1 edition of Carolina Scientific. Founded in Spring 2008, Carolina Scientific serves to educate undergraduates by focusing on the exciting innovations in science and current research that are taking...

Celebrating Excellence: Fall/Winter Core Staff Recognition Awards  The School of Medicine (SOM) Office of Research Technologies is proud to announce the recipients of the Fall/Winter Core Staff Recognition Awards. These awards celebrate the outstanding staff within our UNC-Chapel Hill core facilities who exemplify the highest standards of Customer Service, Performance Excellence,...

Dr. Chris Gregory (Professor, Department of Genetics and Director, Office of Research Technologies) and Kara Clissold (Associate Director, Office of Research Technologies) published a paper titled “Incentivizing collaboration with core facilities: Developing an impactful core facility voucher program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine” (JBT 36(4):15-24,...

In fiscal year 2026 (FY26), the Core Facility Advocacy Committee (CFAC) selected to fund 19 applications through the Core Voucher Program, a funding opportunity that provides up to $10,000 to applicants from the School of Medicine for expenditures within core facilities to generate pilot data for grants or engage in...

The Michael Hooker Metabolomics and Proteomics (MAP) Core was recognized as a Thermo Fisher Center of Excellence in Metabolomics and Proteomics in 2025. The core manages seven state-of-the-art mass spectrometry systems for both proteomic and metabolomic services and provides additional capabilities and expertise in sample preparation, data analysis, research design,...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a long-standing tradition of scholarship on core facility operations, best practices, and the import of cores for driving rigor and reproducibility. In September, several members of the ABRF Committee on Core Rigor and Reproducibility, including Dr. Patricia Basta, Director of the...