October 30, 2024
UNC Children's has opened the Muenzer MPS Research and Treatment Center dedicated to improving the lives of patients with mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS), a group of rare inherited conditions, and advancing research with the goal of creating better therapies.
October 23, 2024
Led by Kathleen Caron, PhD, UNC School of Medicine researchers earned a Sprint for Women’s Health Award to develop a new therapeutic approach to treating debilitating migraines that affect women.
October 15, 2024
U.S. Department of Defense awarded $2.8 million to UNC Institute for Trauma Recovery researchers led by Samuel McLean, MD, to test the safety and efficacy of BXCL501 – sublingual dexmedetomidine created by BioXcel Therapautics for treating acute stress reaction symptoms and preventing posttraumatic stress.
October 9, 2024
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M. Jumper for their groundbreaking work in computational protein design and protein structure prediction. UNC’s Brian Kuhlman made significant contributions to this work while a postdoctoral researcher in the Baker lab.
August 26, 2024
In a small pilot study, UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Flavio Frohlich, PhD, used a new closed-loop system to measure the electrical brain patterns of individual patients and then stimulate those patterns with a weak electrical current, resulting in significantly improved symptoms of major depressive disorder.
July 24, 2024
For patients with atrial fibrillation, using a wearable device can lead to higher rates of anxiety about their Afib symptoms and treatment, doctor visits, and use of informal healthcare resources, according to a new study from UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Lindsey Rosman, PhD.
July 24, 2024
Led by Greg Scherrer, PharmD, PhD, and Chong Chen, MD, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, research published in Nature reveals a new pain control pathway from the cortex to the cerebellum crucial to placebo analgesia – when the expectation of pain relief leads to pain alleviation without a therapeutic intervention, such as with a drug.
July 10, 2024
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded Gilliam Fellowships to 50 graduate students in science – and their advisers – following the largest competition in the program’s history. John Patrick Flores and his adviser Douglas Phanstiel, PhD, associate professor of cell biology and physiology, were selected in the 19th year of the program.
June 11, 2024
Yinglong Miao, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology and computational medicine, has been named editor-in-chief of npj Drug Discover, part of the Nature portfolio of journals.
June 5, 2024
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday, May 31 2024.
May 23, 2024
Molecular biologist Jordi Xiol posted a fascinating entry on his Substack page “Vineyard Books, a blog on history and science,” featuring UNC School of Medicine’s Charles Carter, PhD, professor of biochemistry and biophysics, and his research into the proteins that spurred life on Earth four billion years ago.
May 21, 2024
This five-year grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is led by Toni Darville, MD, director of the UNC Children’s Research Institute, in collaboration with scientists at Vaxcyte, Inc. and the University of Chicago.