March 24, 2024
Congratulations to the UNC School of Medicine MD Class of 2024, which celebrated their achievements in Roper Hall, the school's new medical education building named after former Dean Bill Roper.
March 12, 2024
Publishing their work in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vibhor Krishna, MD, at the UNC School of Medicine, and colleagues discovered that specific neurons in the brain are actively involved in processing cardiac and respiratory signals.
February 21, 2024
All six basic science departments rank in the top 10 in National Institutes of Health funding for federal fiscal year 2023, including the Department of Genetics, which is ranked 1st among public schools. Eleven clinical departments rank in the top 30.
January 17, 2024
Mara Buchbinder, PhD, professor of social medicine, and colleagues at the UNC School of Medicine and Harvard University surveyed obstetrician-gynecologists in 13 states with functional abortion bans to document the impacts on healthcare staff.
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.