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UNC Chapel Hill Well-Represented at ABRF 2025

April 17, 2025
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...

Get to Know Justin Fousek (LCCC Bioinformatics)

February 17, 2025
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,...

Biomolecular NMR Laboratory and Macromolecular X-Ray Crystallization Core Highlighted in Recent Nature Chemical Biology Paper

February 13, 2025

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

January 17, 2025
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...

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

January 16, 2025
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...

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

January 14, 2025
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...

Congratulations to Core Staff Recognition Award Winners Aurora Cabrera, Justin Fousek, and Jade Hollars

January 9, 2025
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...

Microscopy Services Laboratory Contributes to Winning Images

November 7, 2024
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...

Core Directors Charlene Santos and Dr. Laura Herring Co-Authors on Study Identifying New Protein Pathway Important in Cancer Metastasis and Cell Migration

October 25, 2024

UNC Core Showcase October 22, 2024

October 10, 2024
UNC Core Facility Showcase Event Date: Tuesday October 22, 2024 Event Location: Koury Oral Health Sciences lobbies Event Time: 10 am – 12 pm Event Website: https://www.med.unc.edu/corefacilities/core-showcase/ Over 50 UNC Chapel Hill core facilities will be presenting posters on their services and capabilities during the UNC Core Showcase, held October 22nd...