July 6, 2022
Shih Lab Earns NeuroImage ‘Paper of the Year’ Honors
The lab of Ian Shih, PhD, received the top prize from the journal NeuroImage for brain research featuring fMRI and fast-scan cyclic voltammetry. First author was Lindsay Walton, PhD.
July 6, 2022
The lab of Ian Shih, PhD, received the top prize from the journal NeuroImage for brain research featuring fMRI and fast-scan cyclic voltammetry. First author was Lindsay Walton, PhD.
July 6, 2022
The American Society for Microbiology selected Miriam Braunstein, PhD, in the UNC Department of Microbiology & Immunology, as a distinguished lecturer for a two-year term.
July 5, 2022
The Clinical Trials Unit in the UNC Children’s Research Institute is a site for a national study to assess the efficacy of Paxlovid, a pill to treat COVID in children under 18 at increased risk for severe illness.
July 5, 2022
Mauro Calabrese, PhD, Nilu Goonetilleke, PhD, and Adam Hantman, PhD, were selected as Yang Family Biomedical Scholars in the sixth installment of this annual School of Medicine award.
July 5, 2022
Ke Cheng, PhD, in the Joint UNC-NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, in collaboration with colleagues at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University, led the development of the vaccine prototype from proof-of-concept to animal studies.
July 4, 2022
With no current treatments for hepatitis A, UNC School of Medicine scientists led by Stanley M. Lemon, MD, discovered how a protein and enzymes interact to allow hepatitis A virus to replicate, and they used a known drug to stop viral replication in an animal model.
July 1, 2022
William L. Roper, MD, MPH, former dean of the UNC School of Medicine and CEO of UNC Health, wrote an editorial for the journal Science on "the roles of science and politics in public policy decisions, and the means by which scientific truth is established and updated."
June 30, 2022
With the FDA ordering Juul to stop selling their e-cigarette devices, UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Ilona Jaspers, PhD, published the first study to compare the respiratory immune health effects of different types of devices.
June 29, 2022
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty during the past week, starting Friday June 24, 2022.
June 28, 2022
The American Hospital Association conducted a long-form video interview with Erin Fraher, PhD, associate professor of family medicine, on important health workforce trends in the United States.
June 21, 2022
Following trauma, feeling detached from one’s surroundings may suggest a higher risk of later developing psychiatric symptoms, according to research led by Harvard and McLean Hospital investigators, who are part of the NIH-funded AURORA Study led nationally by UNC’s Sam McLean, MD.
June 21, 2022
Genevieve Neal-Perry, MD, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, presented findings of this industry-sponsored study at ENDO 2022, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in Atlanta.