Hugh “Chip” McAllister, M.D., an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, has made a three-part gift to establish the UNC McAllister Heart Institute.
A study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has identified a key player in a molecular process essential for DNA replication within cells.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded $2.5 million from the National Institutes of Health to establish a new cooperative research center for studies of sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
In a review article published this month in The Oncologist, UNC’s Dr. Richard M. Goldberg and a team of colleagues catalogue how the data collected in a single large comparative clinical trial testing combination chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer has been used not only to benefit the patients that enrolled but also patients who subsequently developed the disease.
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco have developed and experimentally tested a technique to predict new target diseases for existing drugs.
Four faculty members from UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded yearlong grants from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF).
At UNC Hospitals, the Interpreter Services department has dumped both pagers and cell phones in favor of a device they find to be much more effective in meeting their needs: the Apple iPod touch.
The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy conducts this course will be held Jan. 4-8, 2010. Registration deadline is Dec. 1, 2009 and only a few spots are left.
The John B. Graham Medical Student Research Society hosts 42nd Annual Student Research Day on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. The day will kick off with a keynote address by Dr. Edward Benz, President and CEO of the Dana Farber Cancer Center. Student research presentations will follow.
This weekend, Dr. Michael Hill joins Department of Family Medicine's "Here's to Your Health" radio program to discuss Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
A reminder that certain parking lots are reserved for UNC home football games. UNC’s next home game is Nov. 7 at 3:30 p.m. against Duke in Kenan Stadium.
To recognize Prematurity Awareness Month, a photo exhibit of Newborn Critical Care Center (NCCC) patients and families is located in the N.C. Children’s Hospital lobby this November.
