February 6, 2023
Led by researchers in the UNC School of Medicine lab of Blossom Damania, PhD, a study in Nature Communications shows how Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus and Epstein-Barr virus hijack a human protein to help the viruses evade innate immune detection to spread undeterred.
February 2, 2023
Narges Farahi, MD, MPH, of UNC Family Medicine is PI for a grant to develop and test a holistic polycystic ovary syndrome management program within a federally qualified health center. An interdisciplinary group of co-investigators from UNC OB-GYN, UNC School of Social Work, Piedmont Health, GWU and the Collaborative for Maternal and Infant Health are co-PIs.
February 1, 2023
Listing of recent competitive grant awards to SOM faculty with project start dates from Jan. 2 - Jan. 15, 2023.
February 1, 2023
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday January 27, 2023.
February 1, 2023
Cynthia Bulik, PhD, founding director of the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders, is senior author of the article published in JAMA Psychiatry.
January 31, 2023
This article was published in the Triangle Business Journal on January 30, 2023. To read it, click on the link below.
January 30, 2023
This research, led by UNC School of Medicine scientists Laura Kincer, Sarah Joseph, PhD, and Ron Swanstrom, PhD, with international collaborators, shows that in addition to HIV’s ability to lay dormant in the blood/lymphoid system, the virus may also lay dormant in the central nervous system, delineating another challenge in creating a cure.
January 30, 2023
Carla Chibwesha, MD, MSc, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the University of North Carolina’s Division of Global Women’s Health and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, will work with researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Moffitt Cancer Center develop trials to be conducted at clinical sites in Kenya, Uganda and Botswana.
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.
January 25, 2023
Wesley Legant, PhD, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Pharmacology and the UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, received a grant called "Observing Molecules in Context with 4Pi Lattice Light Sheet Nanoscopy" as part of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's (CZI) Dynamic Imaging projects.
January 25, 2023
Michelle Itano, PhD, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, is one of ten co-principal investigators who received a two-year grant called "Curated Imaging Science Education for Learners and Trainers."
January 25, 2023
Rural hospitals and healthcare facilities face amplified financial challenges amid persisting workforce shortages, rising costs and leveling reimbursement. Cristen Page, MD, executive dean of the UNC School of Medicine shares ideas with Becker's Hospital Review on how to to save rural healthcare.