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Dr. Hong Yuan awarded S10 Grant

May 18, 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Hong Yuan, Director of the BRIC Small Animal Imaging facility, on her awarded S10 Grant for her project entitled, “Preclinical Vevo-F2 ultrasound imaging system for Small Animal Imaging core facility.” This $490K grant funds the installation of a preclinical ultrasound imaging system in BRIC’s Small Animal Imaging...

Autism Research Center Awards $25K Pilot Grants to Three Interdisciplinary Research Projects

April 8, 2023
The Autism Research Center awarded three $25,000 pilot grants to several faculty members on three interdisciplinary research projects, including one titled Developing brain-wide CSF flow imaging for infants at likelihood for autism, to BRIC faculty member and director of the Small Animal MRI facility Dr. Ian...

BRIC Seminar Series presents Dr. Babak Behnam Azad

March 6, 2023
Join us Wednesday March 8th at 4:00pm EST for a presentation by Babak Behnam Azad, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences and Technical Director at the Center for Translational Molecular Imaging (CTMI) within the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine! Targeted Diagnostics and Therapeutics for Improved Disease Management Wednesday,...

NIH Funding Ranks 6th among Public Universities

February 28, 2023
The ranked 19th in the country in total National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for federal fiscal year 2022 and 6th among peer public universities, according to a new report published by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. The total dollar amount is $358,658,406, about $11 million more...

Novel Optical and fMRI Platform Identifies Brain Regions that Control Large-scale Brain Network

February 16, 2023
Researchers from the , led by Ian Shih, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Neurology and Associate Director of the Biomedical Research Imaging Center, revealed the role of the insular cortex in controlling the Default Mode Brain Network. When we daydream or revisit memories, a large group...

Researchers Unveil New Collection of Human Brain Atlases that Charts the Early Developing Brain in Fine Detail

January 31, 2023
Human brain atlases can be used by medical professionals to track normative trends over time and pinpoint crucial aspects of early brain development. With these atlases, they are able to see what typical structural and functional development looks like, making it easier for them to spot the symptoms of abnormal...

Research from Dr. Eva Telzer’s lab shows social social media may affect adolescent brain development

January 27, 2023
Earlier this year, researchers from Dr. Eva Telzer’s lab published their work in JAMA Pediatrics. Their exciting findings, which were covered not only locally by WRAL, but nationally by both CNN and The New York Times are summarized below. Congratulations to Dr. Telzer and her team! Social media platforms allow...

A robust core architecture of functional brain networks supports topological resilience and cognitive performance in middle- and old-aged adults

October 27, 2022
Alerted connectivity in brain networks may turn them more sensitive to environmental insults and disease. In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) PhD student William Stanford, and BRIC member Eran Dayan investigated if brain resilience accounts for differences in cognitive function in...

Scientists Create New Map of the Developing Cerebral Cortex

August 22, 2022
scientists led by Gang Li, PhD, have mapped the surface of the cortex of the young human brain with unprecedented resolution, revealing the development of key functional regions from two months before birth to two years after. The new cortical development mapping, reported online in the Proceedings...

Dr. Stephanie Engel named BRIC Associate Director

August 3, 2022
Dr. Stephanie Engel has accepted the position as the Associate Director of Imaging-based Population Sciences at the Biomedical Research Imaging Center Dr. Engel is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is also the Director, Center for Early Life Exposures and...