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FY21-22 Winter/Spring CFAC RFA is Now Open

December 13, 2021
Are you a core director or administrator interested in bringing new equipment or methodology into your lab? Do you want to develop collaborative efforts with other core facilities? Is there cutting edge technology in your field and the only thing standing in your way of bringing it to UNC access...

Welcome Kara Clissold, Associate Director of ORT

November 12, 2021
ORT is excited to welcome Kara Clissold as the new Associate Director of ORT. Kara comes to us after six years in the Histology Research Core Facility in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology and she received her B.S. from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and her M.A. from Wake Forest...

Core Facility Showcase Video

November 12, 2021
The Core Facility Showcase video premiered during UNC Research Week 2021! Check out the amazing research facilitated by our biomedical research cores.  

Core Facility Showcase during UNC Research Week

November 10, 2021
UNC Research Week is highlighting some of our fantastic core facilities! The School of Medicine Core Facilities are a critical of UNC’s research infrastructure, and are an invaluable resource to researchers across-campus. Join us for a virtual Core Facility Showcase that will feature six of our cores: The Pathology Services...

Macromolecular Interactions Core Facility Virtual Tour

September 2, 2021
Check out the Macromolecular Interactions Core Facility Virtual Tour. View full video here.

Itano Named Editor-in-Chief of BioTechniques

July 16, 2021
Future Science Group named Michelle Itano, PhD, as the new Editor-in-Chief for BioTechniques, the International Journal of Life Science Methods.

MBP and HPCC Cores Contribute to Paper Published in Nature Genetics

July 1, 2021
Damaris Lorenzo, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, led the discovery of a new neurodevelopmental syndrome, its underlying genetic basis and molecular mechanisms, both important milestones on the road to create therapeutic strategies.

NORC Metabolism and Metabolomics Core Offers Choline and Related Metabolites Assays

May 28, 2021
The Nutrition Research Institute conducts quantitative targeted analysis of biospecimens (e.g., plasma, serum, urine, stool, breast milk, and seminal plasma) to determine levels of choline and choline-related metabolites (e.g., methionine, trimethyl amino oxide, betaine, phosphorylcholine, phosphatidylcholine, glycerophosphocholine, homocysteine, S-adenosylmethionine, S-adenosylhomocysteine, creatinine) that are associated with disease, dysfunction, or dietary intake....

NEW Mass Photometer in UNC PEP-MX Core

April 30, 2021
The UNC PEP-MX core has a Refeyn One Mass Photometry instrument that’s now available for use.

Itano Featured in Podcast on Gender Equity in STEM

March 18, 2021
Michelle Itano, PhD, director of the UNC Neuroscience Microscopy Core and assistant professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, is featured in this edition of the Talking Techniques podcast about gender equality in STEM.