Office of Research Technologies

Welcome to the Office of Research Technologies

The Office of Research Technologies (ORT) is here to provide support and advocacy for our cores; please contact us for assistance, or with any questions or concerns about core facility operations. We also can facilitate relationships between new users and our cores. If you are a PI or external user interested in more information and access to general and specialized scientific instrumentation and services available from our core facilities please reach out to us at corefacilities@med.unc.edu

See below information from the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) concerning RSC rate increases. If your core’s rates are increasing or you receive pushback from.a customer about rate increases, you may wish to refer customers to the following: The University administers Research Service Centers (RSC/Core Facilities) according to Federal costing standards, as well as State and …

The Office of Sponsored Programs is working to improve the rate review process. Part of that effort has resulted in a new set of operating plan and rate development worksheet documents. Cores should use the following documents and the new fillable pdf operating plan for all new rate review requests and procedures. Please note that …

Congrats to ORT’s own Dr. Christopher Gregory on the publication of : “Addressing the Environmental Impact of Science Through a More Rigorous, Reproducible, and Sustainable Conduct of Research” in the Journal of Biomolecular Technique. The importance of core facilities can be felt far beyond the research enterprise. This article highlights the role core facilities/shared resources …

Office of Research Technologies

Welcome to the Office of Research Technologies

OSP Issues Statement on RSC Rate Increases

New Rate Documents from OSP

New article on the role of core facilities in environmental sustainability co-authored by Dr. Chris Gregory from ORT