August 5, 2021
Arora Named National Academy of Medicine Fellow
Kavita Shah Arora, MD, division director of general obstetrics and gynecology, was selected as a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics by the United States National Academy of Medicine.
August 5, 2021
Kavita Shah Arora, MD, division director of general obstetrics and gynecology, was selected as a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics by the United States National Academy of Medicine.
August 5, 2021
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has selected Ross Boyce, MD, as a recipient of a 2021 Clinical Scientist Development Award for his research proposal titled, “Getting malaria off the back of women and children in western Uganda.”
August 2, 2021
The award will presented to Dr. Oyesiku at the Society's 2021 Annual Meeting August 8-11.
August 2, 2021
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has selected 50 doctoral students and their advisors to advance diversity and inclusion in the sciences. From the UNC School of Medicine, graduate student Nancy Sey and her advisors Hyejung Won, PhD, and Joyce Besheer, PhD, were named Gilliam Fellows.
July 27, 2021
UNC Medical Center & CarolinaEast Specialties Nationally Ranked across four adult specialties in US News’ 2021-22 “Best Hospitals” report.
July 7, 2021
Joseph Piven, MD, director of the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, was named as one of 22 public members of this federal committee that coordinates activities and provides advice to national leaders and administrators.
June 23, 2021
Klara Klein, MD, PhD, Shetal Patel, MD, PhD, Clio Rubinos, MD, Miriam Sklerov, MD, MS, Philip Spanheimer, MD, and Matthew Vogt, MD, PhD will receive support from the Physician Scientists Training Program at the UNC School of Medicine to cultivate their careers as translational clinician scientists.
June 23, 2021
The T32 Predoctoral Training Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) grant has been renewed for five years by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).
June 22, 2021
Jenny Ting, PhD, has been chosen as the 2021 ICIS-Pfizer Award winner in recognition of her outstanding discoveries in the fields of immunology, molecular biology, genomics, and microbiology, and especially for her observations regarding the control of immunity which impact a wide variety of diseases.
June 18, 2021
The Society’s Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture is a prestigious biennial lecture, awarded to distinguished physiologists working outside the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland.
June 16, 2021
The new $38-million National Institutes of Health consortium – led at UNC-Chapel Hill by Yun Li, PhD – will develop better ways to use polygenic risk scores in diverse communities as estimates for an individual’s risk of developing specific diseases.
June 15, 2021
UNC Children’s is nationally ranked in seven subspecialties, two in the top 25.