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A May 17 Hillsborough Campus conference, “Building a Dementia Friendly Community,” will educate providers, caregivers, and the community on dementia-friendly training at the hospital and beyond.

Hospital-wide dementia-friendly training is well underway at UNC Hospitals Hillsborough Campus, where nearly two-thirds of all staff and providers who interact with patients have completed training. UNC Health Care is the first major health care system in the state with plans to deliver hospital-wide training to multiple partnering hospitals. After the Hillsborough pilot, the training program will expand to NC Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, Pardee UNC Health Care in Hendersonville, and Wayne UNC Health Care in Goldsboro.

Interim results presented by UNC’s Joseph Muenzer, MD, PhD, provide preliminary evidence that in vivo genome editing occurred in a clinical trial testing a treatment for Mucopolysaccharidosis Type II (MPS II), also known as Hunter syndrome.

As part of the phase 1 clinical trial for patients with Hunter syndrome, Joseph Muenzer, MD, PhD, performed the UNC Clinical Translational and Research Center’s first-ever in vivo genome editing therapy, achieving a milestone in his own career.

UNC researcher Charles Carter, PhD, and Peter Wills, PhD, from the University of Aukland, show how genes were first translated into proteins to offer insight into a long-time scientific mystery.

The protein Stp6 wears many hats, including one for RNA degradation, which the lab of Brian Strahl, PhD, discovered. (By Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga, UNC Health Care)

UNC School of Medicine researchers, led by Brian Strahl, PhD, found surprising role for a protein called Spt6, which is crucial to the maintenance of proper messenger RNA levels in cells, a discovery that opens new research avenues and suggests a target for basic understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of human diseases.

The study, co-led by Patrick Sullivan of UNC and Naomi Wray of the University of Queensland, is the largest genome-wide association study to date of genetic risk factors for major depression.

UNC Lineberger's Charles M. Perou, PhD, Katherine Hoadley, PhD, and Benjamin Vincent, MD.

UNC Lineberger researchers led two major projects to mark the finale of The Cancer Genome Atlas project, which was backed by the National Cancer Institute and National Human Genome Research Institute.

As UNC geneticist Jonathan Berg gears up to lead a $9.7-million renewal of the NCGENES project, we look at a story from the original study and how it changed the fortunes of a woman from Goldsboro, NC.

Category: Genetics And Aging

Hospital-wide Dementia Friendly Training at UNC Hospitals Hillsborough Campus

Muenzer Presents Additional Results from Groundbreaking Genome Editing Clinical Trial

Preliminary Data from Groundbreaking Genome Editing Clinical Trial Encouraging

Researchers Reveal Hidden Rules of Genetics for How Life on Earth Began

Scientists discover new gene expression mechanism with possible role in human disease

Researchers identify 44 genomic variants associated with depression

UNC Lineberger researchers help map the cancer genome, generate key insights

Thanks to a UNC research project, she can walk again