Category: News

University Launches Carolina-Duke Core Partnership   New Program Expands Research Access to Specialized Core Facilities Across Both Institutions The Carolina-Duke Core Partnership officially launched this summer, opening access to specialized research core facilities at both UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University. This groundbreaking pilot program allows researchers at both institutions to...

Congratulations to the Recipients of the FY27 UNC SOM Core Facilities Advocacy Committee (CFAC) Core Voucher Program The Core Facilities Advocacy Committee (CFAC) received over 100 meritorious funding requests to utilize UNC SOM core facilities through the FY27 CFAC Core Voucher Program. Eighteen projects were selected for funding. Congratulations to...

the Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC) Center for Animal MRI (CAMRI) team is behind a recent Nature Neuroscience paper. Check out the press release!

The “Mass Spec Rock Star”: Cristina Arciniega Honored with Customer Service Excellence Award   On any given day, Cristina Arciniega might be handling rabbit eyeballs, human feces, or oxygen-sensitive molecules that degrade the moment they touch the air. For Arciniega, a Research Associate in the UNC Department of Chemistry’s Mass...

Key Takeaways The UNC Cryo-EM Core is receiving the Titan Krios G4, one of the most powerful cryo-electron microscopes in structural biology, later this year. Since opening, the core has contributed to over 100 structural maps and trained more than 50 researchers across UNC and beyond. The core serves UNC researchers,...

When you ask Simone about her eight years at UNC—six of which have been with NC TraCS—she describes a path that wasn’t exactly linear. With a background in anthropology and biology, she spent her early career in infectious disease research at Mass General, where she first fell in love with...

This spring, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded UNC-Chapel Hill two prestigious S10 Shared Instrumentation Grants (SIG), bringing state-of-the-art technology to campus that will accelerate discoveries in neuroscience, cancer biology, pathology, and other fields of research. These highly competitive grants recognize the university’s collaborative research environment and provide upgraded...

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 and...

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...