May 18, 2022
Latest Grant Awards to SOM Faculty
Awards include those with start dates from May 1 - May 15 with a total award amount greater than $100,000.
May 18, 2022
Awards include those with start dates from May 1 - May 15 with a total award amount greater than $100,000.
May 17, 2022
The School of Medicine Office of Research Technologies held its inaugural Core Facilities Staff Recognition Program in April 2022 and announced three winners in categories including performance excellence, customer service, and technical achievement.
May 17, 2022
Melissa Miller, PhD, director of the Clinical Molecular Microbiology Laboratory at UNC Medical Center, talks with the News and Observer about why an at-home COVID test might give false-negative results and tips on how to determine if follow-up testing is needed.
May 17, 2022
Timothy P. Daaleman, DO, MPH, Professor of Family Medicine, has been named Chair of the Ethics and Professionalism Committee for the American Board of Medical Specialties.
May 16, 2022
A study published in The Lancet Digital Health led by UNC School of Medicine’s Emily R. Pfaff, PhD, shows how the National COVID Cohort Collaborative used XGBoost machine learning models to better define long COVID and identify potential long COVID patients with a high degree of accuracy.
May 16, 2022
Using data from a large nationally representative sample of internists, UNC School of Medicine’s Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH, led two studies in PLOS ONE and the Journal of Healthcare Management on the moral distress impact of the pandemic and actions healthcare organizations took to support clinicians during the past two years.
May 16, 2022
Led by Juan Song, PhD, scientists at the UNC School of Medicine used optogenetic techniques to stimulate specific brain cells to increase production of neural stem cells and neurons relevant to memory and emotion processing in animal models.
May 16, 2022
The new tower brings the total number of licensed beds at the Hillsborough Campus to 163. The facility’s combined footprint now measures approximately 365,000 square feet, and the project added 100 jobs.
May 11, 2022
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty during the past week, starting Friday May 6, 2022.
May 11, 2022
The story of Honey Mone't Jones, an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in the MICU at UNC Medical Center, and her mother, Venus Standard, a Certified Nurse Midwife, and current Assistant Professor at the UNC School of Medicine and Department of Family Medicine, is not your typical mother-daughter story.
May 11, 2022
This article was published in the Triangle Business Journal on May 10, 2022. To read the article, click on the link below.
May 11, 2022
UNC-Chapel Hill scientists led by Mark Zylka, PhD, found measurable levels of a biomarker for azoxystrobin in pregnant women and young kids, and investigated the fungicide’s ability to pass from mothers to embryos in utero in mice and during lactation.