April 19, 2023
Newsworthy from the School of Medicine, Week of April 14 – April 20
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday April 14, 2023.
April 19, 2023
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday April 14, 2023.
April 19, 2023
Clinical Scholars convenes its equity-centered leadership training on April 20-26 at the JB Duke Hotel in Durham, NC with its 5th cohort. Author and educator Stedman Graham, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz, and UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Dean Nancy Messonnier will speak during a kickoff panel.
April 17, 2023
UNC Health is proud to announce that four members of our team were honored by the Triangle Business Journal as recipients of a 2023 Health Care Leadership Award.
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 12, 2023
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday April 7, 2023.
April 10, 2023
UNC School of Medicine’s Alex K. Gertner, MD, PhD, and Beat D. Steiner, MD, MPH, led a study on a new “enhanced primary care” model which resulted in lower blood pressure and hemoglobin A1c and increased screening for people with severe mental illness.
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.
April 6, 2023
The lab of Juan Song, PhD, and colleagues at the UNC School of Medicine, demonstrated the therapeutic potential of new neurons generated in adulthood for modulating the pathology and functional deficits associated with Alzheimer’s disease using rodent models.
April 5, 2023
Several UNC School of Medicine faculty members were a part of three interdisciplinary research projects awarded $25,000 pilot grants through the UNC Autism Research Center.
April 5, 2023
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday March 31, 2023.
April 4, 2023
Thirty-three students at UNC-Chapel Hill have received prestigious awards from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program for their research in STEM-related fields. UNC SOM recipients are Glory Dan-Dukor, McKenzie Grundy, Nichole Margaret Hondrogiannis, Dhuvarakesh Karthikeyan, and Rachel Sharp.
April 4, 2023
This article was published in Listener magazine in New Zealand on April 1, 2023. To read it, click on the link below.