November 5, 2020
Keisha Gibson, MD, MPH, FASN, Department of Medicine Vice Chair of Diversity and Inclusion, shares why she joined a COVID-19 clinical trial and why she's urging others to consider joining the fight.
October 28, 2020
Janeth Pearl, residente de Cary, explica por qué participa en el ensayo clínico de la vacuna COVID-19.
October 21, 2020
Led by Stan Lemon, MD, researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and GSK colleagues discovered that the majority of rhinoviruses need a human protein called STING to infect cells and replicate to cause disease.
October 15, 2020
Chapel Hill resident, Gracie Howell, explains why she's taking part in COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial held by UNC School of Medicine’s Infectious Diseases Division.
October 7, 2020
WUNC Producer Charlie Shelton-Ormond talks with Cindy Gay, MD, the primary investigator of a Phase 3 clinical trial for a COVID vaccine taking place at UNC-Chapel Hill.
September 17, 2020
Adaora Adimora, MD, PhD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases and professor of epidemiology in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been honored by her peers with the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Award.
August 27, 2020
The new video series from Medscape includes compelling stories of people living with HIV and interviews with UNC School of Medicine's Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH, Kate Muessig, PhD, and Lina Rosengren-Hovee, MD, MPH, MS, of the UNC Behavior and Technology Lab in the division of infectious diseases.
August 20, 2020
Claire Farel, MD, MPH, Medical Director of the UNC Infectious Disease Clinic, and Co-Director of the UNC Center for AIDS Research Clinical Core, gave a plenary talk at the 2020 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care and Treatment.
August 10, 2020
A phase III clinical trial for the vaccine produced by Moderna is seeking 30,000 participants across the country.
July 8, 2020
With facemask donations pouring in and a proliferation of instructional videos for fabricating masks at home, UNC and EPA researchers are collaborating with infection prevention experts to test the performance of masks on campus, with the goal of providing UNC Health workers with the safest available masks at all times. The research collaboration is led by Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, and Phillip Clapp, PhD.
May 26, 2020
The UNC School of Medicine lab of Stanley M. Lemon, MD, and colleagues used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to pinpoint a sugar-fatty acid molecule that acts like a gatekeeper to hepatitis A virus infection of human cells.
July 10, 2019
Scott Commins, MD, PhD, continues to research “alpha-gal” meat allergy and create awareness for the tick-borne illness as a new CDC research study begins. Recognized as a leading national expert, Commins will now guide a US DHHS Tick-Borne Working Group Subcommittee.