{"id":4029,"date":"2021-11-12T13:21:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T18:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/?page_id=4029"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:34:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:34:03","slug":"ort","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/ort\/","title":{"rendered":"Office of Research Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Welcome to the Office of Research Technologies<\/h3>\n<script>\n\n    (function($) {\n        $(\"body, html\").addClass(\"heels_full_width_overflow\");\n    })(jQuery);\n\n   <\/script>\n   <div style=\"background-color:#f5f5f5;\" class=\"full-width-contained whitebackground \">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. \u00a0We also can facilitate relationships between new users and our cores. \u00a0If 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 <a href=\"mailto:corefacilities@med.unc.edu\">corefacilities@med.unc.edu\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n            <div class=\"wc-cards\"><article class=\"wc-card wc-card--3x2 wc-card--zoom\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/staff-award-spotlight-simone-frank\/\" class=\"wc-card__link-wrap\"><div class=\"wc-card__image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2026\/06\/Simone-Frank_Headshot-600x400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-wc_card_3x2 size-wc_card_3x2 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2026\/06\/Simone-Frank_Headshot-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2026\/06\/Simone-Frank_Headshot-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/div><div class=\"wc-card__header\"><p class=\"wc-card__date\">6 days ago<\/p><h3 class=\"wc-card__title wc-card__title--3\">Staff Award Spotlight: Simone Frank<\/h3><\/div><div class=\"wc-card__content\"><p class=\"wc-card__excerpt wc-card__excerpt--5\">When you ask Simone about her eight years at UNC\u2014six of which have been with NC TraCS\u2014she describes a path that wasn\u2019t exactly linear. With a background in anthropology and biology, she spent her early career in infectious disease research at Mass General, where she first fell in love with the power of qualitative, community-based &hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wc-card__more\" aria-label=\"Read more about Staff Award Spotlight: Simone Frank\"><span class=\"wc-card__more-text\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Read more<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/a><\/article><article class=\"wc-card wc-card--3x2 wc-card--zoom\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/6511-2\/\" class=\"wc-card__link-wrap\"><div class=\"wc-card__image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2026\/06\/Spring-2026-Staff-Award-Congratulations-Post-600x400.png\" class=\"attachment-wc_card_3x2 size-wc_card_3x2 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2026\/06\/Spring-2026-Staff-Award-Congratulations-Post-600x400.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2026\/06\/Spring-2026-Staff-Award-Congratulations-Post-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/div><div class=\"wc-card__header\"><p class=\"wc-card__date\">2 weeks ago<\/p><h3 class=\"wc-card__title wc-card__title--3\">Anderson, Arciniega, and Frank Named Winners of Spring 2026 Core Staff Recognition Awards<\/h3><\/div><div class=\"wc-card__content\"><p class=\"wc-card__excerpt wc-card__excerpt--5\">The exceptional quality of nominations for the Spring 2026 cycle of the Core Staff Recognition Awards made this one of the most competitive periods in the program\u2019s history. While nomination itself is a significant honor, the award review committee was tasked with the difficult challenge of weighing a record number of high-caliber submissions against rigorous &hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wc-card__more\" aria-label=\"Read more about Anderson, Arciniega, and Frank Named Winners of Spring 2026 Core Staff Recognition Awards\"><span class=\"wc-card__more-text\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Read more<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/a><\/article><article class=\"wc-card wc-card--3x2 wc-card--zoom\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/unc-chapel-hill-core-facilities-awarded-two-nih-s10-shared-instrumentation-grants\/\" class=\"wc-card__link-wrap\"><div class=\"wc-card__image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2026\/06\/NIH-SIG-May-2026-600x400.png\" class=\"attachment-wc_card_3x2 size-wc_card_3x2 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2026\/06\/NIH-SIG-May-2026-600x400.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2026\/06\/NIH-SIG-May-2026-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/div><div class=\"wc-card__header\"><p class=\"wc-card__date\">3 weeks ago<\/p><h3 class=\"wc-card__title wc-card__title--3\">UNC Chapel Hill Core Facilities Awarded Two NIH S10 Shared Instrumentation Grants<\/h3><\/div><div class=\"wc-card__content\"><p class=\"wc-card__excerpt wc-card__excerpt--5\">This spring, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded UNC-Chapel Hill two prestigious S10 Shared Instrumentation Grants (SIG), bringing state-of-the-art technology to campus that will accelerate discoveries in neuroscience, cancer biology, pathology, and other fields of research. These highly competitive grants recognize the university\u2019s collaborative research environment and provide upgraded tools that will benefit hundreds &hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wc-card__more\" aria-label=\"Read more about UNC Chapel Hill Core Facilities Awarded Two NIH S10 Shared Instrumentation Grants\"><span class=\"wc-card__more-text\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Read more<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/a><\/article>            <\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Office of Research Technologies &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55643,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4029","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6263,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4029\/revisions\/6263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}