February 9, 2022
Dayton Named Chair of the Joint UNC-NCSU Department of Biomedical Engineering
Paul Dayton, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has served as interim chair since the fall of 2019.
February 9, 2022
Paul Dayton, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has served as interim chair since the fall of 2019.
January 31, 2022
These NIH centers are led by Elizabeth Mayer-Davis, PhD, and Susan Sumner, PhD, at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Three researchers part of these centers hold primary appointments with the UNC School of Medicine -- Steven Cotten, PhD, Tom Keyserling, MD, MPH, and John Batsis, MD.
January 31, 2022
The UNC Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology, led by Ilona Jaspers, PhD, was awarded an EPA cooperative agreement for $4.5 million over three years.
January 31, 2022
Co-led by Hendrée Jones, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, this work is major step towards improving standards of care for infants prenatally exposed to opioids, part of the HHS Overdose Prevention Strategy.
January 31, 2022
Rebekah Layton, PhD, Director of Professional Development Programs at the UNC School of Medicine, co-authored a new PLOS ONE study examining common themes across stakeholder groups both in and outside of academia.
January 27, 2022
February is Black History Month, an annual celebration of the achievements of Black Americans. We encourage everyone to take this month to celebrate and honor Black Americans, reflect on our nation’s history and the many contributions of Black Americans and to learn about the struggles Black Americans still face today.
January 27, 2022
The prestigious honor for David Margolis, MD, Sarah Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology, and Epidemiology, recognizes his distinguished contributions to the field of virology, particularly for key discoveries on the mechanisms of HIV latency and devising new strategies to pursue a cure for HIV.
January 26, 2022
This research, led by Jean Cook, PhD, and Liu Mei, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, may help explain why certain parts of the genome become highly mutable in some cancers.
January 26, 2022
Rebecca Baum, MD, professor of pediatrics, is a featured expert on the American Academy of Pediatrics website healthychildren.org about how parents and pediatricians can address mental health and offer additional support for children.
January 20, 2022
This study, called IMPACT, was co-led by A. Wesley Burks, MD, CEO of UNC Health and dean of the UNC School of Medicine. Edwin Kim, MD, is co-author on the paper and leads peanut allergy research at the UNC School of Medicine.
January 20, 2022
This week’s WCHL Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Blossom Damania, Boshamer Distinguished Professor and Vice Dean for Research at the UNC School of Medicine.
January 12, 2022
The UNC School of Medicine Lab of Kathleen Caron, PhD, discovered that the protein VE-cadherin is a key player in the maintenance and function of lymphatic vessels in the heart, but that loss of these vessels is not associated with decreased heart function after heart attack.