News and Updates

SOM Biomedical Research Core Voucher Program – FY20 Awarded Projects

120 applications were received in response to the first offering of the SOM Biomedical Research Core Voucher Program. 27 grants were awarded, engaging 19 different cores. FY20 Awarded Projects

Biomedical Research Core Voucher RFA Program Announcement

The Core Facility Advocacy Committee (CFAC) in the Office of Research Technologies (ORT), UNC School of Medicine (SOM), announces a new program for research projects that directly utilize UNC SOM biomedical research cores. Core vouchers worth up to $10,000 will be awarded to investigators with qualified projects to be used exclusively for core services. Up … Continued

Core Facilities Newsletter Summer 2019

Catch up on core facility news and highlights in the newsletter summer 2019 edition

Microscopy Services Laboratory (MSL) Update

The Microscopy Services Laboratory’s mission is to help scientists with their research, when it involves light microscopy, electron microscopy and image analysis. We provide training and assistance in all three areas, as well as extensive sample preparation services for transmission and scanning electron microscopy. In consultation with researchers we can advise which instruments will most … Continued

UNC MH Proteomics Center: High-resolution mass analysis of large, intact biomolecules including antibody therapeutics

The UNC Proteomics Core receives CFAC funding to acquire a 908 Devices ZipChip Capillary Electrophoresis System. Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is a microfluidic technology that separates a variety of analytes from different matrices based on size and charge. The 908 Devices ZipChip uses a combination of CE and electrospray ionization enabling up-front separation coupled with mass … Continued

Biospecimen Processing Facility (BSP)

Read the spring 2019 BSP Newsletter for updates on the core and services

Zeng wins Outstanding Individual Performance Award

Allergen Biologics created this award due to its first-rate relationship with Xinghua Zeng, the lab manager for the UNC Vector Core, which provides AAV products to researchers around the world. Allergan created a new award category so it could honor UNC School of Medicine’s Xinghua Zeng, MS, the lab manager of the UNC Vector Core. … Continued

RNAi High Throughput Screening Facility

RNAi mediated inhibition of gene expression is a powerful method for identifying genes and their cognate phenotype, whose loss of expression alters the cell phenotype. The RNAi High-Throughput Screening (HTS) Facility provides automation and robotics support, guidance in screen assay development, implementation of primary and secondary screens as well as a human genomic siRNA library … Continued

Michelle Itano Receives Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Grant to support Imaging Scientists

The CZI will support the innovative imaging work of Michelle Itano, PhD, director of the UNC Neuroscience Microscopy Core facility, for five years thanks to a grant totaling nearly $800,000. Read the story: http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2019/march/itano-earns-czi-grant-to-support-imaging-scientists