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UNC Office of Research Technologies @unc_ort

The Office of Research Technologies (ORT) provides operational support to UNC's biomedical core facilities.

Joined November 2021
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Interested in exploring spatial biology with the Akoya Phenocycler at the @UNC_Lineberger Pathology Services Core, but need grant funding to kickstart the work? Check this out! sb.akoyabio.com/IO60-spatial…?
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ORT sat down with recent MacArthur fellow @nabarund and Director of the Chemistry Mass Spec Core @BrandieEhrmann to chat about the role of the core facility in Dasgupta's life-saving work on the opioid epidemic! Honored to tell this part of the story. go.unc.edu/Ka8s3.
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UNC Public Health@UNCpublichealth
23 Jul 2025
On July 6, Chapel Hill and surrounding areas faced heavy rain and flooding from Tropical Storm Chantal, which damaged some UNC students’ housing and essentials on and off campus. Students in need of immediate support are eligible for University aid. dailytarheel.com/article/202…

Students face flood damage from Chantal on and off campus, may be eligible for University aid

UNC did not release any campuswide statements addressing the damage or sharing resources until three days after the storm. Some students took to social media platforms voicing their frustrations...

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Clinical Pharmacology & Analytical Chemistry Lab@CPACLab
24 Jul 2025
New guidelines from a collaboration with our laboratory improve how we read PrEP drug levels in blood spots—helping ensure people get the protection they need. #HIVprevention #PrEP #Adherence pubmed-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.libp…
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Congrats to all authors, including co-author and core director of the Metabolomics/Proteomics Core Laura Herring and shout out to the Flow Cytometry Core, Small Animal Imaging Core, and Microscopy Services Laboratory for supporting nature.com/articles/s41590-0… @OoR_UNC @UNC_Flow

A multi-kinase inhibitor screen identifies inhibitors preserving stem-cell-like chimeric antigen...

Nature Immunology - Dotti and colleagues performed an unbiased, high-throughput screen of kinase inhibitors to identify a three-kinase inhibitor cocktail capable of preserving a stem-cell-like...

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Fantastic work supported by the Pathology Services Core and Macromolecular Interactions Facility!
UNC School of Medicine@UNC_SOM
2 Dec 2024
“Hepatitis A can usurp this protein to make its own proteins to replicate and successfully infect liver cells," said Stanley Lemon, MD. A new study by the renowned researcher reveals more about the #HepatitisA virus and what it needs to grow and survive. news.unchealthcare.org/2024/…
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UNC Microbiome Core@MicrobiomeUNC
3 Dec 2024
Has the two decades of research on the gut microbiome resulted in making healthier choices? Please check out our newly released article about the impacts of well-supported microbiome research on human health cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Has the two decades of research on the gut microbiome resulted in making healthier choices? | Gut...

Has the two decades of research on the gut microbiome resulted in making healthier choices? - Volume 5

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news.unchealthcare.org/2024/… Shout out to the @UNC_Lineberger Pathology Services Core for supporting the histopathology in this research! #thanksforacknowledgingthatcore

Scientists Implicate a Novel Cellular Protein in Hepatitis A Infection | Newsroom

A collaboration between Stanley M. Lemon, MD, and fellow infectious diseases colleagues at the UNC School of Medicine has unveiled a crucial role for a protein called PDAP1 in hepatitis A virus...

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The UNC Microscopy Services Laboratory houses the microscopes that took 2/3 of the 2024 UNC SOM Art in Science competition winners! Congrats to all the scientists involved in taking these great images. @UNCPathology @UNC_Lineberger @UNC_SOM med.unc.edu/intranet/2024/11…

Congratulations to the 2024 Art in Science Competition Winners! - School of Medicine Intranet

Posters showing the winning images were on display in Bondurant Hall during UNC Research Week.

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Thanks to everyone who came out for the UNC Core Showcase this week! It was great to connect with other core directors and current/future core customers!
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NINDS Office of Research Quality@NINDS4Rigor
5 Sep 2024
The @unc_ort has a webpage devoted to explaining how core facilities can facilitate rigor and reproducibility. They also provide guidance documents to their cores to promote these practices: med.unc.edu/corefacilities/r…

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youtube.com/watch?v=RUT-ngfs… Check out how amazing our core facilities are!

Core Facilities - The Bedrock of UNC Research 2024

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Congrats to Krzysztof Krajewski, director of the High-Throughput #Peptide Synthesis and Array facility @UNC_BCBP and Ian Shih, director of the UNC Center for Animal MRI @camri_unc for being named as co-PIs to two funded Creativity Hub projects! research.unc.edu/creativity-…

2024 Winners - UNC Research

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023-2024 Creativity Hubs seed funding awards. The Creativity Hubs awards have transformed research at ......

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Congrats @NicewiczLab and colleagues on their recent publication and shout out to the @uncchemistry Mass Spectrometry Core, @UNCPharmacy NMR Core, and @BRIC_UNC Radiochemistry core for their contributions to this work!
Nicewicz Lab@NicewiczLab
18 Jul 2024
Check out our newest collaboration with the Li lab in ACS Central Science about One-Step Synthesis of [18F]Aromatic Electrophile Prosthetic Groups via Organic Photoredox Catalysis! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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Michelle Itano@MichelleItano
17 Jul 2024
Tessa hosted a tour today for a group visiting campus with Shadow a Scientist! So fun to have Tessa share her scientific journey, have students get to see some neurons and a cochlea up close…and my favorite, getting to preserve these moments of discovery with quick snaps! 🔬📸😍
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Congrats @le_mccorm @stephgupton1 and all of the study's co-authors, and shout out to the core facilities that supported this work--the @UNC_Proteomics, Macromolecular X-Ray Crystallography, and Neuroscience Microscopy Core @MichelleItano !
J Cell Science@J_Cell_Sci
24 Jun 2024
Congratulations to the authors of our most read articles published in January 2024! Laura McCormick @le_mccorm, Stephanie Gupton @stephgupton1 @UNC_SOM @UNC_CBP and colleagues, Multi-monoubiquitylation controls VASP-mediated actin dynamics: doi.org/10.1242/jcs.261527
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Congrats @stutzman_alexis @jilldowen and shout out to the core facilities who facilitated this outstanding work--the High Throughput Sequencing Facility and @UNCPathology Microscopy Services Laboratory!
UNC Biochemistry and Biophysics department@UNC_BCBP
10 Jun 2024
Congrats on your publication! @jilldowen
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Congrats to all the UNC core directors and employees on this list! We are so glad you're here sharing your expertise with our community. Shout out to all of those at the 25 year mark--Tal Kafri, Dominic Moore, Bentley Midkiff, and Karen McKinnon!
UNC Human Resources@unc_hr
6 May 2024
Thank you, Tar Heels, for being the driving force behind Carolina’s reputation as a leader in higher education. CONGRATULATIONS to the 2,164 Carolina employees celebrating a service milestone this year!  We appreciate your dedication! #UNC go.unc.edu/state-service
2024 State Service Recognition - UNC Human Resources and Equal Opportunity and Compliance - go.unc.edu/state-service - stylized graphic of three people posed around a large cake with balloons and stars around them.

ALT 2024 State Service Recognition - UNC Human Resources and Equal Opportunity and Compliance - go.unc.edu/state-service - stylized graphic of three people posed around a large cake with balloons and stars around them.
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Have you double checked that every #corefacility that provided resources for your project is acknowledged in your paper? Takes just a minute but makes a world of difference for our core directors to demonstrate their scientific impact and value!
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Congrats to all the core directors out there who submitted their NIH S10 instrumentation grants yesterday! And now we wait...
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