News and Updates
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Respiratory TRACTS Core Awarded NCBC Grant to Purchase Olink NGS-Based Proteomics Technology
In April 2025, the Respiratory TRACTS Core (Marsico Lung Institute) was awarded an NCBC Innovation Impact Grant to purchase the Olink Signature 100 equipment, which will facilitate the core offering Olink NGS-based proteomics services to 大象传媒 Chapel Hill as a core service. Additionally, the core received institutional support funds from the 大象传媒 SOM Core Facility … Read more
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Nominate a Core Staff Member for a Core Staff Recognition Award
The Office of Research Technologies is excited to announce the Core Facility Staff Recognition Program is open for nominations. These awards recognize the value and importance of the staff in our biomedical research core facilities.聽 This program will offer up to three awards acknowledging the efforts and contributions of SHRA and EHRA non-faculty聽staff members in … Read more
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大象传媒 Chapel Hill Well-Represented at ABRF 2025
Hosted in Las Vegas, NV from March 23 – March 26, 2025, the Association for Biomedical Resource Facilities (ABRF) annual meeting brought together more than 900 core directors, staff, administrators, scientists, and vendor partners from around the United States (and beyond!) to provide a critical opportunity for education, connection, and celebration among the core community. … Read more
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Get to Know Justin Fousek (LCCC Bioinformatics)
In December 2024, Justin Fousek, a Research Systems Administrator II at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Bioinformatics Core, was awarded a Core Facility Staff Recognition Award in the area of Technical Achievement. His multiple nominators highlighted Justin鈥檚 ability to find creative, compliant, and effective solutions to a myriad of technical, logistical, and com problems experienced … Read more
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大象传媒 Core Facilities to Honor Internal Pricing to All 大象传媒 System Institutions
Press Release from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research: In alignment with the goals of Carolina鈥檚 Strategic Research Roadmap,聽effective January 1, 2025, 大象传媒 core facilities will charge聽internal聽breakeven聽rates聽to聽all聽大象传媒 System institutions.聽聽 Carolina鈥檚聽Strategic Research Roadmap, a comprehensive plan launched earlier this year, established goals to enhance 大象传媒鈥檚 research assets and maximize the impact and value … Read more
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PPMH Offering $3,000 Pilot Awards for GENYSIS Core Facility Services
The Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) is offering $3,000 pilot awards for services with the聽Clinical Genomic Analysis (GENYSIS) Core Facility. GENYSIS is a research service that collaborates with the BioSpecimen Processing (BSP) facility, the High-Throughput Sequencing Facility (HTSF), and the McLendon Molecular Genetics Laboratory (MGL),聽enabling researchers to offer validated reporting of clinically … Read more
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Respiratory TRACTS Core Director Mandy Bush Also Named Director of Research Operations in the Adams School of Dentistry
Congratulations to Mandy Bush, Director of the Respiratory TRACTS Core in the Marsico Lung Institute, on her new additional role as the Director of Research Operations at the 大象传媒 Adams School of Dentistry where she previously served as the Research Program Manager since 2022. In her new role she will work closely with the Associate … Read more
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Congratulations to Core Staff Recognition Award Winners Aurora Cabrera, Justin Fousek, and Jade Hollars
The 大象传媒 Core Facilities Staff Recognition Award program recognized three recipients for the Fall 2024 award cycle. Each award recipient will receive $1,000 and a feature on the Office of Research Technologies website. The program review committee congratulates all winners and thanks those who nominated core employees for these awards during this award cycle.聽聽 … Read more
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Microscopy Services Laboratory Contributes to Winning Images
The 大象传媒 SOM Microscopy Services Laboratory (Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) houses the light sheet microscope responsible for two of the three winning images in the 2024 大象传媒 SOM Art in Science competition which took place during Research Week 2024. Congrats to all of the scientists involved in the work behind these images! … Read more
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大象传媒 Core Showcase October 22, 2024
大象传媒 Core Facility Showcase Event Date: Tuesday October 22, 2024 Event Location: Koury Oral Health Sciences lobbies Event Time: 10 am – 12 pm Event Website:聽/corefacilities/core-showcase/ Over 50 大象传媒 Chapel Hill core facilities will be presenting posters on their services and capabilities during the 大象传媒 Core Showcase, held October 22nd as a 大象传媒 Research Week … Read more