August 25, 2026
UNC School of Medicine’s Donna Evon, PhD, will lead a multi-center study evaluating a mind-body digital health program with and without clinician-guided psychotherapy to improve mental health, fatigue and other symptoms for adults with rare cholestatic liver diseases.
August 20, 2026
UNC School of Medicine researchers have identified dietary oxalate a compound found in all plant foods as a potential exacerbating factor in inflammatory bowel disease. Led by postdoctoral scholar Anna Salvador in the Sheikh Lab, the study is the first to use DNA metabarcoding to assess diet in IBD patients and links impaired oxalate handling to disease severity.
June 23, 2026
Researchers conduct new patient registry and radiation therapy study to improve outcomes for patients at high risk of liver cancer and those with early-stage cancer, respectfully
April 22, 2026
A new study provides a practical roadmap for using AI in gastroenterology research writing, along with a clear-eyed assessment of where these tools fall short.
September 19, 2025
Each year, the Postdoctoral Awards for Research Excellence (PARE) are given in recognition of the research promise demonstrated by individual postdoctoral scholars.
June 10, 2025
A new comparative study led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine found that a new therapy for prevention of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection may be less effective than traditional therapy when it comes to preventing severe disease over time.
April 7, 2025
A new study, led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine, highlights the latest statistics on gastrointestinal cancers, hospital admissions, liver transplants, and national funding support for gastrointestinal research.
December 18, 2024
Researchers in the lab of Janelle Arthur, PhD, associate professor at the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the UNC School of Medicine, have found a key process by which gut bacteria may be contributing to intestinal fibrosis, a major complication of an intestinal inflammatory disease called Crohn’s disease.
December 18, 2024
The UNC Chronic Pancreatitis and Autologous Islet Cell Transplant Program, led by Chirag S. Desai, MD, FACS, professor of surgery, has performed its 100th case, cementing UNC Hospitals as one of the most significant centers for surgical therapy for chronic pancreatitis.
September 27, 2024
Seth Webb, a 30-year-old man from Macclesfield, NC, and Scott Owen, a 72-year-old man from Cameron, NC, were both in need of a new liver. Surgeons at UNC Hospitals made the most of the opportunity: performing a rare domino liver transplant at UNC Hospitals to save their lives with the least number of organs possible.
May 7, 2024
Juliane Nguyen, PhD, professor and vice chair of pharmacoengineering and molecular pharmaceuticals at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, and Janelle Arthur, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the UNC School of Medicine, have engineered a probiotic yeast to treat inflammatory bowel disease in animals.
April 24, 2024
Published in the Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology journal, a study led by Anne Peery, MD, and Walker Redd, MD in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, shows that the prevalence of colorectal cancer is low in most patients with diverticulitis. However, patients with complicated diverticulitis are the exception.