January 17, 2024
Led by Juan Song, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, and Wubin Bai, PhD, at the UNC College of Arts and Sciences, research suggests that a wearable patch featuring electrically triggered microneedles for on-demand drug delivery could be the next frontier in treatment of neurodegenerative disorders and neurological injuries.
January 12, 2024
The Rare Diseases Network podcast featured work from the Genetic Disorders of Mucociliary Clearance Consortium (GDMCC) and a paper on primary ciliary dyskinesia published by researchers in the UNC Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery. Senior author is Adam Kimple, MD, PhD.
January 10, 2024
In a new study, UNC School of Medicine’s Brian Conlon, PhD, Duke’s Josh Parsons, MD, PhD, and colleagues provide the best evidence to date for the significance of bacterial persister cells in the failure of antibiotics in the clinic.
January 9, 2024
David Y. Hwang, MD, professor of neurology and division chief of neurocritical care, is co-principal investigator along with colleagues at Duke for a new eastern North Carolina and southern Virginia stroke clinical trial coordinating center.
December 13, 2023
Prostate cancer is the 2nd leading cause of cancer death for men in North Carolina. Eric Wallen, MD, professor of urology at the UNC School of Medicine and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, is co-leading the effort to improve diagnostic and health outcomes for all North Carolinians with prostate cancer, including Black men and Native Americans, who are disproportionately affected.
December 13, 2023
Joseph Piven, MD, the Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, has served as founding editor-in-chief of Journal for Neurodevelopmental Disorders since 2009, when the journal began publishing as part of the Springer Nature family of scientific journals.
November 16, 2023
Twenty UNC School of Medicine and 21 other UNC-Chapel Hill researchers have been named in Clarivate’s 2023 list of Highly Cited Researchers™, scientific pioneers from around the world whose names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science™ citation index.
November 15, 2023
In collaboration with Krista Perreira, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, and Hannah Gill, PhD, at the UNC Institute for the Study of the Americas, the Urban Institute published a report titled, Supporting North Carolina’s Immigrant Families: Addressing Barriers and Promoting Solutions for a More Inclusive Safety Net.
November 8, 2023
Led by UNC Psychiatry and UNC Social Work faculty and staff, the tiny home community in Chatham County will open next spring at The Farm at Penny Lane, which provides a variety of mental health services. Soon it will provide independent living in a nourishing community.
November 8, 2023
During University Research Week, the labs of Dirk Dittmer, PhD, Jack Griffith, PhD, and Joshua Strauss, PhD, won the Art-in-Science Competition held by the UNC School of Medicine Office of Research.
October 19, 2023
UNC School of Medicine scientists led the largest-ever genomic study of postpartum depression showing genetic correlations between PPD and other psychiatric conditions, as well as providing potential evidence of how the only FDA-approved treatment for PPD works.
October 18, 2023
The $5-million initiative, led by the UNC School of Medicine and funded through the U.S. Department of Defense, will test the efficacy of an intervention developed at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research originally designed to help service members who experience acute stress reactions during military operations. Sam McLean, MD, MPH, professor of psychiatry and emergency medicine, is the principal investigator.