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The Michael Hooker Metabolomics and Proteomics (MAP) Core was recognized as a Thermo Fisher Center of Excellence in Metabolomics and Proteomics in 2025. The core manages seven state-of-the-art mass spectrometry systems for both proteomic and metabolomic services and provides additional capabilities and expertise in sample preparation, data analysis, research design,...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a long-standing tradition of scholarship on core facility operations, best practices, and the import of cores for driving rigor and reproducibility. In September, several members of the ABRF Committee on Core Rigor and Reproducibility, including Dr. Patricia Basta, Director of the...

Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta calls himself a pharmaco-epidemiologist. He’s also a harm reduction advocate, scientist, mentor, scientific advisor, community outreach specialist, and, most recently, MacArthur Fellow1. Dasgupta’s work centers around addressing the opioid epidemic at the community level. On one front, he is co-founder and Board Chair for the non-profit Remedy...

The Office of Research Technologies is excited to release the first annual UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine Core Facility and CFAC Report for FY25. The report highlights the impact of core facilities within the School of Medicine and the usage of core facilities by School of Medicine Principal Investigators,...

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...