Category: Spotlight

Congratualations to Dr. Krzyzstof Krajewski of the High-Throughput Peptide Synthesis and Array Facility and Dr. Yen-Yu Ian Shih, director of the Center for Animal MRI (CAMRI) in the Biomedical Research Imaging Center’s Small Animal Imaging Facility! Both are co-PIs for projects funded as through the 2024 Creativty Hub Program. For...

The UNC Core Facilities Staff Recognition Award program recognized three recipients for the 2023 spring 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...

A subcore of the  CHANL Core Facilities, the Soft Matter Characterization Core is dedicated to delivering reliable sample analysis and professional training services on the characterization of soft materials and providing customers open access to cutting-edge, high performance analytical instrumentation.   Soft materials include colloids, polymers, foams, gels, liquid crystals,  and many biomaterials. They exhibit many useful and...

Congratulations to Nicholas Pankow, a research specialist in the Pathology Service Core in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, for presentation of a poster which was chosen as one of three winners out of 38 posters during the 2023 National Society for Histotechnology conference in Baltimore, Maryland. His poster, titled “P-31:...

The BRIC Small Animal Imaging (SAI) core facility has recently received a new animal ultrasound imaging system through a NIH S10 shared instrumentation grant (S10-OD034328). The new system, Vevo-F2, will replace the old Vevo-2100 system that has been serving more than 25 research labs in our community. The new system...

    Dr. Venkata R Chirasani, R.L. Juliano Structural Bioinformatics core director Dr. Venkata R Chirasani will be joining as the director of R.L. Juliano Structural Bioinformatics core facility at UNC-Chapel Hill on May 1st, 2023. Dr. Chirasani is an expert in molecular modeling and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of...