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: Infectious Diseases
June 26, 2025
Groundbreaking Twice-Yearly HIV Prevention Injection Approved by FDA
UNC School of Medicine’s Joe Eron, MD, an expert on HIV transmission and drug development, led a clinical trial on the new medication, which has the potential to resolve the HIV epidemic around the world.
May 29, 2025
UNC Researchers Help Marion Family Affected by Rare Mosquito Disease
Five-year-old Granger Horney contracted the La Crosse Virus, a potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease, in July 2024. With blood samples from Granger, researchers at Carolina are working to create better diagnostics and a treatment for the little-known disease.
January 3, 2025
Dr. David Weber Named Incoming President of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
Dr. Weber currently serves as the Charles Addison and Elizabeth Ann Sanders Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Professor of Epidemiology, Associate Chief Medical Officer, UNC Medical Center, and Medical Director, Department of Infection Prevention, UNC Medical Center.
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.
November 20, 2024
READY TO RESPOND: An Inside Look Into UNC’s SPARC Program
The UNC Special Pathogens Response Center (SPARC) at UNC Hospitals is a regional and national resource for safely caring for patients with a special pathogen. Get an inside look on how healthcare professionals prepare and train during an exercise at the UNC Medical Center.
May 15, 2024
Jiang Receives $4.46-million NIMH Grant
Guochun Jiang, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics and member of the UNC HIV Cure Center, received an R01 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for his project “Defining the HIV reservoir and latency mechanism in human brain myeloid cells” which is funded for five years and $4.6 million.
May 14, 2024
Five Questions with Isabela Gerdes Gyuricza
In this new Vital Signs series, we feature graduate student Isabela Gerdes Gyuricza in the Parr lab. Through her research at UNC, Gerdes Gyuricza has developed a clearer vision of how her work in genetic epidemiology can influence public health policies and make a difference in people's lives.
February 13, 2024
New Trial Highlights Incremental Progress Towards a Cure for HIV-1
Cynthia L. Gay, MD, MPH, associate professor of infectious diseases, and David Margolis, MD, the Sarah Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology, and Epidemiology in the UNC School of Medicine, published results of a clinical trial showing that vorinostat and immunotherapy may modestly shrink the latent HIV reservoir.
December 15, 2023
UNC-Chapel Hill Named National HIV Residency Pathway Consortium Site
UNC-Chapel Hill was recently named a National HIV Residency Pathway Consortium Site and awarded a year-long, $68,000 grant to support its efforts in training family medicine and internal medicine residents in caring for people with HIV. UNC’s site Investigators, Rick Moore, MD, and Louise Rambo King, MD, have a storied history of caring for patients with HIV.
August 10, 2023
Gut Microbiome Can Increase Risk, Severity of HIV, EBV Disease
UNC School of Medicine researchers Angela Wahl, PhD, Balfour Sartor MD, J. Victor Garcia, PhD, and colleagues created a germ-free mouse model to evaluate the role of the microbiome in the infection, replication, and pathogenesis of HIV and Epstein-Barr virus, the virus that can cause mononucleosis and other serious diseases.
July 11, 2023
UNC Department of Family Medicine Authors Second Edition of Chronic Illness Care Textbook
Springer recently released "Chronic Illness Care, Principles and Practice," edited by UNC Family Medicine's Timothy P. Daaleman, DO, MPH, and Margaret R. Helton, MD. Faculty members in the Department of Family Medicine, faculty across the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, and other national and international experts wrote the textbook.