September 29, 2021
The Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care will host an interactive mini-symposium exploring mechanisms for predicting how a patient's genome will influence their response to medications, implementing pharmacogenomics in the clinic, and development of EHR support.
September 15, 2021
Brea Hampton, a PhD candidate in the Genetics & Molecular Biology (GMB) curriculum and member of the Department of Genetics, has been awarded a competitive five-year Transition to Aging Research Award for Predoctoral Students from the National Institute of Aging (NIA).
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.
November 4, 2020
International consortium led by UNC Departments of Genetics and Computer Science publishes manuscript on the development and testing of a new tool to enhance the value of the laboratory mouse in biomedical research.
October 28, 2020
A fracture liaison service, hospitalist-led and co-managed by endocrinology providers, was designed to improve care for patients with acute hip fracture. In a pre-post study published in Hospital Practice, the service was associated with significant improvements in the proportions of patients evaluated and offered treatment for osteoporosis.
September 16, 2020
Hyejung Won, PhD, and Jason Stein, PhD, in the UNC Department of Genetics and members of the UNC Neuroscience Center, led a genome-wide association study to find that lowered expression of a gene called DDHD2 may increase a person’s likelihood of autism.
May 27, 2020
The Division of Geriatric Medicine's Joshua Niznik, PharmD, PhD, has been named by the US Deprescribing Research Network as a 2020-2021 Junior Investigator Intensive Awardee. As part of the Network’s inaugural cohort, Dr. Niznik and fellow awardees will expand support for deprescribing research among older adults.
May 26, 2020
Jenny P. Ting, PhD, was selected as the 2020-2021 President of the American Association of Immunologists. Established in 1913, AAI has become the most prestigious association of immunologists in the world with nearly 8,000 scientists in 71 countries.
March 25, 2020
A major international collaboration co-led by UNC School of Medicine scientist Jason Stein, Ph.D., has produced the first genetic map of the cerebral cortex, identifying more than 300 genetic variants that influence cortical structure and play roles in psychiatric conditions.
March 21, 2020
Dirk Dittmer, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology, is working with colleagues to explore how next generation sequencing can be used to help ensure accuracy in novel coronavirus diagnostics, as well as identify mutations and learn the history of the virus by sequencing its genome.
March 9, 2020
Led by UNC School of Medicine neuroscientist Hyejung Won, PhD, researchers created H-MAGMA, a computational tool that improves current technology used to link non-coding genetic variants to the genes associated with diseases through genome-wide association studies.
May 24, 2019
Adding genomic sequencing results to traditional newborn screening means a baby could potentially test positive for numerous conditions that might not develop within their lifetime. A UNC School of Medicine study proposed a method for how to responsibly determine which types of conditions to include in testing and potentially return to parents.