May 21, 2020
Latest Grant Awards to SOM Faculty
Review a listing of recent competitive grants awarded to UNC School of Medicine faculty.
May 21, 2020
Review a listing of recent competitive grants awarded to UNC School of Medicine faculty.
May 21, 2020
FastTraCS is a small group of biomedical engineers who support UNC Health physicians, nurses and staff by identifying problems in clinical settings and creating innovative, technological solutions.
May 21, 2020
The UNC School of Medicine is being recognized as an Apple Distinguished School.
May 20, 2020
Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH, chair of the UNC Department of Psychiatry, received the 2020 Oliver Max Gardner Award, the highest honor conferred by the University of North Carolina system.
May 20, 2020
In the first COVID-19 case series of tocilizumab in the United States, UNC-Chapel Hill researchers and students from the UNC School of Medicine and Gillings School of Global Public Health, report that the drug tocilizumab should be used judiciously until randomized clinical trials determine the drug’s true efficacy for severely ill patients.
May 20, 2020
Brad Figler, MD, associate professor of urology, received the award for his work creating the UNC Transgender Health Program as a way to support coordination and quality of care for transgender patients. Recent SOM graduates Noa Nessim, MD, and Margo Faulk, MD, received their awards for starting the Gender Affirming Care Clinic at UNC’s Student Health Action Coalition (SHAC, the nation’s first student-run free clinic).
May 19, 2020
The Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development would like to congratulate the 2019-2020 cohort of Academic Career Leadership Academy in Medicine (ACCLAIM) graduates. The leadership development program is for early- to mid-career faculty in the School of Medicine, with an emphasis on those underrepresented in medicine.
May 18, 2020
Erica Brenner, MD, a pediatric gastroenterology fellow at UNC Children's Hospital, is a co-lead author of the study.
May 18, 2020
UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Klaus Hahn, PhD, John Sondek, PhD, and Daniel Marston, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center reveal the inner workings of cellular communication and processes important for cell migration and potentially metastasis.
May 14, 2020
Martha Perry, MD, has been invited to participate as a panelist on the NC DHHS COVID-19 Healthcare Professional Webinar Series on May 14th.
May 14, 2020
Amy Johnson, EdD, will begin her new role August 1.
May 14, 2020
The Academy of Educators, housed within the UNC School of Medicine’s Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development, has grown to nearly 500 members after its recent acceptance of 99 new members. Congratulations to our incoming members!