August 20, 2020
Latest Grant Awards to SOM Faculty
Listing of recent competitive grant awards to SOM faculty
August 20, 2020
Listing of recent competitive grant awards to SOM faculty
August 20, 2020
Groesbeck P. Parham, MD, has been recognized by the Zambian government as a leader in the fight against cancer.
August 13, 2020
Seven UNC Health hospitals have received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award.
August 13, 2020
David A. Gerber, MD, George F. Sheldon, MD, Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chief of Abdominal Transplant Surgery at UNC Surgery, was awarded the Defense Meritorious Service Medal by the United States Secretary of Defense. Congratulations to Dr. Gerber on this well-deserved honor.
August 13, 2020
Our Carolina Care Highlight this week recognizes Emily Kurzon Baker from the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology. Here's what one of her patients had to say: “All the staff at the Afib clinic with whom I interacted where very cheerful, pleasant, professional and kind. Emily Baker was really excellent - she carefully listened to my answers to her questions, explained options for treatment, checked that I understood..."
August 11, 2020
Andrea Hayes-Jordan, MD, Byah Thomason Doxey-Sanford Doxey Distinguished Professor, Chief of the division of general pediatric surgery, has been elected a governor of the board of directors for the American Pediatric Surgical Association.
August 10, 2020
Cathy Anderson, a graduate student in the UNC Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, has been awarded the NCI Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award for research conducted as part of the McGinty lab.
August 6, 2020
Silvio Antoniak, PhD, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and member of the UNC Blood Research Center and the UNC McAllister Heart Institute, was awarded a four-year, $2.2 million grant from the NIH-NHLBI to investigate the potential therapeutic approach in inhibiting PAR1 to treat chemotherapy-induced heart failure.
August 6, 2020
Sandra Soto, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of nursing and member of the Thurston Arthritis Research Center, received $600,000 from the NIH's National Institute on Minority and Health Disparities.
August 6, 2020
Listing of recent competitive grant awards to SOM faculty
August 6, 2020
Michelle Campbell (’18 MS MDS), Sophia Chandrasekar ’16 and Letycia Nuñez-Argote ’07, each received recognition for their contributions to the profession.
August 3, 2020
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has selected 45 doctoral students and their advisers to advance diversity and inclusion in the sciences. From the UNC School of Medicine, graduate student Hernán Méndez and his advisor Kathleen Caron, PhD, and graduate student Sofia Neira and her advisor Thomas Kash, PhD, were named Gilliam Fellows.