Dr. Jenifer Brown, Associate Physician at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, is the guest speaker for our next CGR.  Her topic will be "Primary Aldosteronism in Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease." To attend virtually - https://uncsom.webex.com/uncsom/j.php?MTID=md8ef4b99559ebf027c8807feb9061ac2 321 South Colombia Street Bondurant Hall, Room G100 Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 United … Read more

Topics covered will include focus group methodology, considerations for planning a focus group, development of focus group discussion guides, focus group facilitation skills, and tips for conducting virtual focus groups. Attendees will also observe or participate in a mini "mock" virtual focus group session. Register: https://go.unc.edu/QR49 Presenters MaryBeth Grewe, MPH Program Manager, Qualitative and Engaged … Read more

Please join the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s communications and marketing team on April 9 as we host award-winning writer Katherine Wu from The Atlantic, who will lead a discussion and Q&A on science writing in health. Formerly a science and health reporter for The New York Times, Wu also holds a doctoral … Read more

Dr. David Shechner did his undergraduate studies at Yale, and completed his PhD training in David Bartel's lab at MIT. He was a JCCF postdoctoral fellow in John Rinn's lab at Harvard, before launching the SheqLab at UW in 2017, and is currently the Assistant Professor for the Department of Pharmacology at the University of … Read more

Grab your lunch and join us for an exciting webinar on double machine learning, presented by Philipp Bach, PhD, MSc & Sven Klaaßen, PhD, MSc. Drs. Bach and Klaaßen are postdoctoral researchers at the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Business Administration, Institute of Statistics. Their research focuses on statistical methods for causal machine learning and … Read more

Join the Department of Health Sciences Office of Research and Scholarship for its April Research Forum. This hybrid event will be held in MacNider 321 and on Zoom. Lunch will be served at the in-person event. Please RSVP for both in-person and to access the Zoom link. Register: https://unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_71blHLN60jVCDQO The forum will involve presentations from … Read more

The UNC Mindfulness-based Program for Stress and Pain Management offers meditation and mind-body awareness training that will teach you to slow down, set priorities, and stay calm, focused, and relaxed during a busy life. These practices will enhance your body’s natural adaptive healing ability and cultivate the mind’s clarity and insight. This evidence-based program is … Read more

The Health Sciences Library is offering a Clear Health Communication workshop on April 15th! This free, virtual workshop will provide an introduction to health literacy and plain language for written communication. We will cover tips and tools for clear communication and practice writing with plain language. This workshop is intended for anyone creating patient education … Read more

Please join the NC TraCS Institute as members of the TraCS Data Science Lab discuss ways that common generative AI models have been particularly helpful in their research. This seminar will focus on using accessible, off-the-shelf models in ways that are applicable to diverse research domains. ----- Seminars in the NC TraCS Data Science Seminar Series will … Read more

Summary of Seminar:  Combinatorial signaling by proinflammatory cytokines synergizes to exacerbate toxicity to cells and tissue injury in both acute and chronic cardiovascular disease. To explore synergism at the gene regulatory level, we investigated the dynamics of transcription and chromatin signaling in response to dual cytokines by integrating nascent RNA imaging mass spectrometry, RNA-sequencing, amplification-independent … Read more