November 24, 2020
Serena Spudich, MD, professor of neurology and chief of Neurological Infections & Global Neurology at Yale University, is the first recipient of this award named in honor of beloved UNC neurology professor Kevin Robertson.
November 19, 2020
In a ceremony held virtually on Thursday, November 12, the 2020 H. Fleming Fuller Award was presented this year to co-honorees, Keisha Gibson, MD, MPH, and Benny Joyner, MD, MPH.
November 18, 2020
UNC School of Medicine graduate students Alina Hamilton, Emily Ozpinar, and Gabriela Torres were among UNC-Chapel Hill awardees for this year's Impact and Horizon Awards from the UNC Graduate School.
November 11, 2020
Li Qian, PhD, and Jiandong Liu, PhD, associate professors in the department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, have each won prestigious Established Investigator Awards from the American Heart Association for their separate research on how to heal damaged heart tissue. Their own hearts belong to each other, and the family they’ve built together both at home and at the UNC School of Medicine.
October 21, 2020
The award is presented to one clinical scientist yearly, for making outstanding contributions to the field of Rheumatology.
October 15, 2020
Jackie Knupp Patterson, MD, MPH, received the 2020-2021 James W. Woods Junior Faculty Award for her work on reducing intrapartum mortality and morbidity in low-income countries.
October 15, 2020
Jimena Giudice, PhD, and Zoe McElligott, PhD, earned Jefferson-Pilot Fellowships in Academic Medicine from the UNC School of Medicine for their work on alternative splicing biology and neural signaling involved in opioid withdrawal.
October 6, 2020
Frances Ligler, PhD, was presented the prestigious Simon Ramo Founders Award on October 3 at the National Academy of Engineering’s 2020 Annual Meeting.
September 24, 2020
Review a listing of recent competitive grant awards for UNC School of Medicine faculty.
September 21, 2020
Kaplan, a fourth-year student in the School of Medicine and recent graduate of the Gillings School of Global Public Health, is one of six medical students in the country to be recognized by the Pisacano Foundation for his leadership within the field of Family Medicine.
September 21, 2020
Angela Smith, MD, MS, vice-chair of academic affairs at UNC School of Medicine’s urology department, receives the 2020 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize. Dr. Smith will be awarded $5,000 and will publicly present her research during the Hettleman Lectures, the kick-off event for University Research Week.
September 21, 2020
Zoe McElligott, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and pharmacology and member of the UNC Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, will investigate how neurotransmitters promote alcohol consumption and whether chronic alcohol consumption alters the strength of a specific brain circuit.