The Department of Chemistry Mass Spectrometry Core Laboratory is excited to offer mass spectrometry based lipidomics to the UNC Community.  With Method Development Grant funding from the Core Facilities Advocacy Committee (CFAC), we have developed mass spectrometry based methods for the extraction, chromatographic separation, detection and data processing of lipids from biological matrices.  Our methods … Read more

The BRIC SAI Core Facility has been awarded $2M (Ian Shih, PI) from NIH Office of the Director, to purchase a 9.4T small animal MRI scanner. The system will include the most recently released console and bring in the latest high field MR technologies to UNC.  Aside from the magnet, the core will also install … Read more

The Macromolecular Interactions Facility (MacInFac) recently applied for and was just awarded, a North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC) innovation impact grant for a Biacore 8K, a high-throughput Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) -based biosensor.  With its ultra-low noise level, high sensitivity and high throughput capability, it will not only replace the current aged instrumentation in the … Read more

The Office of Research Technologies (ORT) makes available mini grants for professional development and other educational activities for core facility staff. One of our recent awardees, Bentley R. Midkiff (Translational Pathology Lab) recently completed the NSH Digital Pathology Certificate program, a self-paced course to increase knowledge and improve competency in digital pathology/whole slide imaging. “Although … Read more

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

After scanning more than 250K slides over 10 years, the Translational Pathology Lab (TPL) has replaced its Aperio XT 120 slide scanner with the more robust, high-throughput and highly referenced  Aperio AT2.  The new Aperio instrument has a 400 slide capacity, enabling the facility to scan slides 5 times faster and dramatically reduce turn-around time! … Read more

Read the BSP newsletter, holiday 2019 edition

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 … Read more

The School of Medicine supports 30 biomedical core facilities that offer researchers a pipeline of services and technologies, and help researchers plan studies, advise on processes, run experiments and analyze biological samples.  Read more about the role of UNC’s shared resources in a new story in “The Well”, the online news source for faculty and … Read more

The Animal Models Core (AMC) offers a full range of CRISPR/Cas9 services for genome editing in mice, rats and cell lines. The core was an early adopter of the CRISPR system in 2013 and have now completed over 150 CRISPR projects. Using the CRISPR System for Genome Editing in Mice and Rats: The CRISPR system … Read more