January 14, 2026
Latest Grant Awards to SOM Faculty
Listing of recent competitive grant awards to SOM faculty
Category: News
January 14, 2026
Newsworthy from the School of Medicine, Week of January 9 – January 15
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday, January 9, 2025.
January 14, 2026
Carolina researchers find at-home self-collection testing can expand STI and HPV screening
Researchers with UNC School of Medicine, Gillings School of Global Health, and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center collaborated on a new study that highlights a simple but effective way to improve women’s health screenings for women who are often missed by traditional programs.
January 8, 2026
Snyder Pens Op-Ed About How Skin Cancer Doesn’t Care What Color You Are
Madison Snyder, 2nd-year UNC School of Medicine med student and 2025-26 NC Schweitzer Fellow, pens op-ed about how skin cancer can affect a variety of skin tones.
January 7, 2026
Newsworthy from the School of Medicine, Week of December 19 – January 8
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday, December 19, 2025.
January 6, 2026
Plagued with a Painful Skin Condition, One Man Finds Healing at UNC Health
With expert care from two UNC Health physicians, Clifton Young gained relief, confidence, and a new beginning after decades of suffering.
January 5, 2026
The Year in Research
In fiscal year 2025, UNC School of Medicine researchers led the drive toward important discoveries aimed at improving human health and the lives of people in North Carolina. Our researchers remain dedicated to UNC’s broader research missions by preventing and curing disease, optimizing brain health and well-being, and applying artificial intelligence to benefit and save lives.
January 5, 2026
Renowned UNC Pediatric Biochemical Geneticist Leads First Study on a Novel Treatment for Hunter Syndrome
Joseph Muenzer, MD, PhD, leads research on groundbreaking therapy that offers hope for ultra-rare disease patients across the world living with a devastating genetic disorder.
January 2, 2026
UNC Researchers Show Combination Therapy Effective for Brain Cancer
The research, led by Nobel laureate and biochemist Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, could revolutionize treatments for glioblastoma, an aggressive and deadly form of brain cancer.
January 2, 2026
UNC Health’s Hospitals to Begin Temporary Visitor Restrictions
These temporary precautions are necessary to ensure the health and safety of our patients, visitors and teammates.
December 23, 2025
UNC Researchers Build Stem Cell Models to Mimic Early Brain Development
A new study in the lab of Jason Stein, PhD, modeled brain development in a dish to identify cells and genes that influence infant brain growth, a trait associated with autism.
December 18, 2025
UNC Awarded Funding To Implement Useful Research Results to Prevent Childhood Obesity
This project is co-led by Dual Principal Investigators Dr. Kori Flower at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Dr. Eliana Perrin at The Johns Hopkins University.