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May 31, 2023
Three SOM Students Named Schweitzer Fellows
UNC School of Medicine students Avani Desai, Rayad Shams, and Josh Tanner were named among 29 NC Albert Schweitzer Foundation fellows to address health disparities throughout North Carolina.
May 31, 2023
UNC School of Medicine students Avani Desai, Rayad Shams, and Josh Tanner were named among 29 NC Albert Schweitzer Foundation fellows to address health disparities throughout North Carolina.
May 31, 2023
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday May 26, 2023.
May 31, 2023
UNC Lineberger researcher Jack Griffith, PhD, was featured on Science Friday for his groundbreaking microscopy research on telomeres published this spring in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
May 24, 2023
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday May 29 2023.
April 26, 2023
Yael Shiloh-Malawsky, MD, co-investigators Diana Cejas, MD, MPH, and Jane Fan, MD, and study coordinator Yulissa Gonzalez led the UNC School of Medicine site for a clinical trial of a FDA-approved Rett syndrome treatment from Acadia Pharmaceuticals.
April 13, 2023
James Howard, MD, professor of neurology at the UNC School of Medicine, was the principal investigator of the RAISE clinical trial of zilucoplan, one of two drugs under regulatory review to treat myasthenia gravis.
April 6, 2023
The lab of Juan Song, PhD, and colleagues at the UNC School of Medicine, demonstrated the therapeutic potential of new neurons generated in adulthood for modulating the pathology and functional deficits associated with Alzheimer’s disease using rodent models.
March 13, 2023
The Awards for Excellence in Basic Science Mentoring went to Joyce Besheer, PhD, Sharon Campbell, PhD, Charles Perou, PhD, and Will Valdar, PhD. The Nova Awards for Mentoring went to Adriana Beltran, PhD, Jessica Bowser, PhD, and Natalie Stanley, PhD.
March 1, 2023
A new study, led by Rebekah Layton, PhD, and a team of collaborations from the NIH Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training consortium, shows that underrepresented graduate and postdoctoral students are struggling with confidence in their career paths.
February 28, 2023
David Wohl, MD, and Billy Fischer, MD, published an op-ed in the News & Observer, The Charlotte Observer, and McClatchy subsidiaries on their work trying to gain a better understanding of COVID-19 through a largely observation study of thousands of volunteers in North Carolina.
February 22, 2023
Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine led the pivotal multicenter, double-blinded, randomized clinical trial to show that unilateral focused ultrasound ablation reduced dyskinesia and motor impairment in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Vibhor Krishna, MD, co-led the study.
February 21, 2023
All six basic science departments rank in the top 10 in National Institutes of Health funding for federal fiscal year 2022, according to a new report by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, and 11 clinical departments rank in the top 30. The UNC Department of Genetics is ranked first among peer public schools of medicine.