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Check out the new website for the Microscopy Services Laboratory! Thank you to the School of Medicine website design team for the design work!  

Thank you to those who attended the January 2024 Core Director Meeting either in person or via zoom. For your convenience, the slides and zoom recording are below and listed on our website along with prior core director meeting slides and resources.   Core Directors Meeting Jan 2024 all slides...

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...

During University Research Week, the labs of Dirk Dittmer, PhD, Jack Griffith, PhD, and Joshua Strauss, PhD, won the Art-in-Science Competition held by the UNC School of Medicine Office of Research.   Dr. Dittmer leads the LCCC Vironomics Core, while Dr. Strauss directs the UNC Cryo-EM Core Facility. Sponsored by...

Congratulations to Dr. Ralph House, Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, on receiving the 2023 Governor’s Award for Excellence for his work with Chemists Without Borders! “House received the Human Relations award for his numerous global contributions through his voluntary...

The Office of Research Technologies and Office of Sponsored Programs are coordinating core tours of some of our fantastic core facilities during UNC Research Week. Meet the core directors and staff, learn about new and upcoming events, view our instrumentation, and imagine how collaboration with our cores can expand your...

The Office of Research Technologies  and CFAC are excited to announce that we will once again hold a SOM Core Facility Voucher Program and ask that you forward this information to your customer e-mail lists and send to departmental list servs. The voucher program is intended for UNC researchers (from any school) to apply for...