August 21, 2023
A $100,000 grant from the Neurocritical Care Foundation has been awarded to David Y. Hwang MD, division chief of neurocritical care in the Department of Neurology at the UNC School of Medicine, and colleagues to research an intervention to support family caregivers of patients surviving ICU admission for coma.
August 21, 2023
Miriam Sklerov, MD, of the UNC Neurology Movement Disorders Center, recently won a National Institutes of Mental Health K23 award for her project, "Investigation of non-invasive brain stimulation for the treatment of apathy."
August 21, 2023
UNC Neurology researcher Ian Shih has received a $2.4 million NIH grant to improve functional brain imaging techniques.
August 16, 2023
A $100,000 grant from the Neurocritical Care Foundation has been awarded to David Y. Hwang MD, FAAN, FCCM, FNCS, division chief of neurocritical care in the Department of Neurology at the UNC School of Medicine, and colleagues to research an intervention to support family caregivers of patients surviving ICU admission for coma.
June 22, 2023
Published in The Lancet Neurology, a study led by James Howard, MD, professor of neurology at the UNC School of Medicine, showed how an RNA CAR-T therapy developed by Cartesian Therapeutics can dramatically improve symptoms in patients with myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disorder.
April 13, 2023
James Howard, MD, professor of neurology at the UNC School of Medicine, was the principal investigator of the RAISE clinical trial of zilucoplan, one of two drugs under regulatory review to treat myasthenia gravis.
April 7, 2023
Dominique Higgins, MD, PhD, led research into how a specialized diet can induce a new type of programmed cell death to help kill brain tumor cells.
March 10, 2023
Gregory Scherrer, PharmD, PhD, associate professor of cell biology and physiology and member of the UNC Neuroscience Center, received a Director’s Award for Excellence in Research, and Sarah Linnstaedt, PhD, associate professor of anesthesiology, earned an honorable mention for the Director’s Trailblazer award.
February 15, 2023
Researchers from the UNC School of Medicine, led by Ian Shih, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Neurology and Associate Director of the Biomedical Research Imaging Center, revealed the role of the insular cortex in controlling the Default Mode Brain Network.
January 26, 2023
Led by Pew-Thian Yap, PhD, researchers at the UNC School of Medicine created monthly infant brain atlases to help researchers analyze the developing brain to investigate neurological disorders and other conditions.
November 2, 2022
Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine led by Justin Wolter, PhD, and colleagues at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and Queen Mary University of London, teamed up to publish a comprehensive analysis of what goes awry in brain cells lacking the sacsin protein.
August 8, 2022
UNC School of Medicine researchers, led by Ian Shih, PhD, associate professor of Neurology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, developed an improved fiber-based optical method to measure activity changes in the brain.