April 1, 2020
Meet UNC School of Medicine’s COVID-19 Research Heroes
The UNC School of Medicine has researchers across disciplines working together to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 1, 2020
The UNC School of Medicine has researchers across disciplines working together to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 31, 2020
The North Carolina-based retailer donated $3.1 million this week for local hunger-relief efforts and COVID-19 research on vaccines and treatments at UNC Health and the UNC School of Medicine.
March 30, 2020
Be a Maker and students from the UNC School of Medicine team up with Duke and NC State to design and produce thousands of face shields for healthcare workers.
March 25, 2020
A major international collaboration co-led by UNC School of Medicine scientist Jason Stein, Ph.D., has produced the first genetic map of the cerebral cortex, identifying more than 300 genetic variants that influence cortical structure and play roles in psychiatric conditions.
March 19, 2020
This memo from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at UNC Chapel Hill contains new guidance on steps to manage research and reduce research activity on campus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 18, 2020
A UNC School of Medicine research team led by Mark Zylka, PhD, and Ben Philpot, PhD, has generated preclinical evidence that gene therapy may help individuals with Angelman syndrome by improving seizure and motor outcomes.
March 11, 2020
Dolutegravir-containing regimen exhibited superior safety profile in large, NIH-supported study of pregnant women. UNC’s Lameck Chinula presented findings at the online Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. UNC’s Jeffrey Stringer is a study investigator.
March 10, 2020
UNC Health Urges Use of Virtual Options.
March 10, 2020
The UNC School of Medicine lab of Jason Franz, PhD, created virtual reality experiments to show how a potentially portable and inexpensive test could reduce falls and related injuries in people with multiple sclerosis.
March 10, 2020
The situation with COVID-19 is evolving rapidly, so the best resource for the latest information is the CDC website. UNC Health and UNC-Chapel Hill also have a dedicated websites for coronavirus-related issues.
March 9, 2020
Led by UNC School of Medicine neuroscientist Hyejung Won, PhD, researchers created H-MAGMA, a computational tool that improves current technology used to link non-coding genetic variants to the genes associated with diseases through genome-wide association studies.
March 9, 2020
This unique public-private collaboration provides funding for HIV Cure Center and Qura Therapeutics, the joint venture that brings academic and pharmaceutical research scientists together for the goal of curing people with HIV. David Margolis, MD, is the director of the UNC Cure Center.