Category: News

Dr. Ismael Gomez, a postdoctoral scholar in the Bioinformatics and Analytics Research Collaborative (BARC), was recently interviewed as part of a series of spotlights on postdocs here at UNC Chapel Hill.

From multi-omics technologies to cutting-edge tools for biomarker discovery such as Olink and clinical proteomics, specimen collection, data analysis, and mixed-method evaluation, UNC Chapel Hill core facilities have some new services and instrumentation ready to support your research. Core Facility Technology Talks Monday October 20, 2025 | 1 – 4 PM...

Dr. Joshua Strauss, Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Director of the UNC Cryo-EM Core, was awarded an NIH S10 High End Instrumentation grant to purchase a 300 keV cryogenic-transmission electron microscope. This instrument will join the 200 keV ThermoFisher Talos Actica in the Cryo-EM Core...

The Department of Genetics has established a non-endowed program fund in the UNC Health Foundation – the Chair’s Mid-Career Genetics Faculty Research Fund.  Funds were provided by a donor based on their belief that cutting-edge fundamental research relies on the creativity and ingenuity of scientists and their willingness to challenge...

The voucher program is intended for UNC researchers with a primary or joint appointment to the UNC School of Medicine and their trainees to apply for up to $10,000 in funding to be spent at one or more SOM core facilities which invoice for services. This is specifically intended for NEW method development or PILOT DATA for currently unfunded projects that ALSO meets one of...

 If you are are a core director or core staff scientist interested in presenting a talk during this opportunity to showcase new core technologies, methods, and services please complete the following application to present on or before August 1, 2025: https://unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_es9Vev3tVm05NVs As a reminder, these talks should present original data...

Welcome to the new Director of the UNC Macromolecular Interactions Facility (Mac-In-Fac), Dr. Chris Travis.

S10 Instrument Contributed to the Development of Patented Silent MRI Technique for Functional Neuroimaging at the UNC Biomedical Research Imaging Center’s Center for Animal MRI

Dr. Ash Tripathy will step down as Core Director from the Macromolecular Interactions Facility (Mac-In-Fac) on July 1, 2025, as he will be retiring from the university.  

The UNC Core Facilities Staff Recognition Award program recognized three recipients for the Spring 2025 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...