October 14, 2025
UNC Researchers Discover Method to Combat Antibiotic Treatment Failure
Microbiologists at the UNC School of Medicine identify a molecule that helps boost antibiotic effectiveness against staph, tuberculosis, and salmonella.
Category: Immunology And Microbiology
September 23, 2025
UNC Lab Contributed to FDA Approval of First-of-its-Kind Medication for Pediatric Brain Tumor
Experts at the UNC School of Medicine played a pivotal role in the approval of a new medication for pediatric patients that could also be used to treat other types of cancer.
September 19, 2025
UNC Research Announces 2025 PARE Award Recipients
Each year, the Postdoctoral Awards for Research Excellence (PARE) are given in recognition of the research promise demonstrated by individual postdoctoral scholars.
August 14, 2025
Robles, Lazear Awarded HHMI Gilliam Fellowship
UNC School of Medicine third-year PhD student Celeste Robles and PhD advisor Helen Lazear named in 2025 cohort of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Fellows Program.
March 17, 2025
UNC Study Reveals Possible Effects of Air Quality Changes Associated with Global Warming on Human Airways
A study now published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, reveals how global warming could exacerbate lung diseases by dehydrating and inflaming human airways. UNC Marsico Lung Institute members Brian Button, PhD, is senior author and Alessandra Livraghi-Butrico, PhD, is co-author.
March 12, 2025
Carolina Biologist Wins Wolf Prize in Agriculture
Jeffery L. Dangl, a biologist at UNC-Chapel Hill, was part of an award-winning trio of researchers who received the 2025 Wolf Prize in Agriculture “for groundbreaking discoveries of the immune system and disease resistance in plants.”
February 12, 2025
Some Viruses ‘Freeze’ Their RNA to Replicate, UNC Study Says
Researchers have discovered that RNA in Zika virus can freeze itself in time to further its spread in the body, revolutionizing how researchers study disease-causing viruses.
February 12, 2025
Diabetes Can Drive the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance
Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have proven that antibiotic-resistant strains of a harmful bacteria thrive in a diabetic infection environment.
November 20, 2024
Scientists Implicate a Novel Cellular Protein in Hepatitis A Infection
A collaboration between Stanley M. Lemon, MD, and fellow infectious diseases colleagues at the UNC School of Medicine has unveiled a crucial role for a protein called PDAP1 in hepatitis A virus infection of the liver.
August 23, 2024
Researchers Find E-Cigarette Use Disrupts Nasal Microbiome
A new study led by Elise Hickman, PhD, and Ilona Jaspers, PhD, director of the UNC Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology at the UNC School of Medicine, suggests that e-cigarette and cigarette use changes the microbiome in the nose and makes users more susceptible to respiratory diseases and infections.
August 15, 2024
“You Can Be Both,” A Single Mom’s Journey to Becoming a Renowned Telomere Scientist
Taghreed Mohammed Al-Turki, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the UNC Lineberger lab of Jack Griffith, PhD, describes her long, difficult, and rewarding journey of becoming a telomere scientist as a first-time mother at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
July 22, 2024
Study Reveals “Cell Death Cascade” in Airway Cells Infected with SARS-CoV-2
Researchers in the lab of Jenny Ting, PhD, the William Kenan Distinguished Professor of Genetics and professor of microbiology and immunology, have made numerous findings about how cell death from SARS-CoV-2 infection may directly influence disease progression.