September 30, 2020
Led by Drs. Millie Kwan and Renae Boerneke, the team has launched an innovative outpatient program where providers delable penicillin allergy through penicillin allergy assessments.
September 30, 2020
The Health & Human Rights Lecture, titled “How Pandemics Show Us Who We Are: Race and Risk in the United States,” will be held virtually on Oct. 7 at 6:30 p.m. The lecture will be given by Mary Bassett, the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and professor of the practice at Harvard University School of Public Health.
September 30, 2020
Through a third round of NIA funding, UNC's Medical Students Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) program will continue as a National Training Center from 2020 through 2025.
September 30, 2020
Join the NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education for a virtual seminar series focused on the well-being of biomedical researchers beginning October 5, 2020 from 1:00-3:30PM.
September 30, 2020
John Buse, MD, PhD, will lead the UNC-Chapel Hill site for a collaborative NIH research effort to discover new forms of diabetes, understand their differences, and identify their causes.
September 29, 2020
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health researchers, in collaboration with UNC School of Medicine and UNC School of Nursing faculty, studied whether humans or drones could deliver life-saving defibrillators faster. The study results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, may surprise you.
September 28, 2020
ANCC status goes to fewer than 9% of hospitals in the United States.
September 28, 2020
A new collaboration will produce nearly 2 million N95 respirators per year to address the urgent need for affordable access to essential PPE in communities that need them most.
September 24, 2020
Published in Neuron, research from the UNC School of Medicine lab of Juan Song, PhD, determined the cell-signaling role of a neuropeptide called cholecystokinin, which is important in regulating neural stem cells and creating adult-born neurons within the hippocampus of the brain.
September 23, 2020
One in seven black women with breast cancer had delays in starting treatment, and black women also had extended duration of treatment, according to a study led by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers Melissa Troester, PhD, and Marc Emerson, PhD.
September 17, 2020
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a team led by UNC Lineberger’s Dale Ramsden, PhD, professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, a five-year, $8.8 million program project grant to study an enzyme called DNA polymerase theta.
September 17, 2020
This work, published in Cell and led by the UNC-Chapel Hill lab of Bryan L. Roth, MD, PhD, sets the stage for the discovery of new kinds of antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, and treatments for substance use disorders.