Our mission is to conduct, coordinate, and promote basic and clinical research on the causes, prevention, and treatment of alcoholism and alcoholic disease.

Our mission: to provide a centralized, cost-effective UNC facility to process biospecimens from population, clinical, and other studies; an emphasis on DNA isolation but will also provide blood product separation, and other specimen processing (not tumor tissue); facilitate establishment of UNC-wide DNA Bank.

The UNC Biomolecular NMR Laboratory was created to support research into the structure and dynamics of biological molecules.

The Bruker 9.4T horizontal bore scanner is a dedicated system for small animal studies.

The image analysis core in BRIC serves to develop new tools for image analysis and to support the image storage and analysis needs of scientists who use the BRIC facilities.