September 2, 2022
Latest Grant Awards to SOM Faculty
Read more for a listing of grants awarded to UNC School of Medicine faculty with project start dates from Aug. 15 – 30 with a total award amount greater than $100,000.
September 2, 2022
Read more for a listing of grants awarded to UNC School of Medicine faculty with project start dates from Aug. 15 – 30 with a total award amount greater than $100,000.
August 31, 2022
Whole Community Connection invites applications from existing community-academic partnerships advancing health and well-being in Edgecombe or Robeson County. Selected teams participate in leadership development and receive funding to implement community-led solutions. The call for applications closes Oct. 18.
August 31, 2022
UNC School of Medicine’s 55th annual Student Research Day will take place on Friday, Nov. 11. The John B. Graham Research Society is seeking faculty judges to help make the day a success by providing formative feedback to student presenters.
August 31, 2022
Read more for a listing of grants awarded to UNC School of Medicine faculty with project start dates from Aug. 1 - Aug. 15, 2022, with a total award amount greater than $100,000.
August 26, 2022
Assistant Professor Jose Rodríguez-Romaguera, PhD, has been awarded the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation 2022 Young Investigator Award. The Foundation's grants provide scientists with up to $70,000 to advance research focused on mental illness.
August 24, 2022
Sahar Ahmad, Ye Wu, and Pew-Thian Yap, researchers at the UNC Biomedical Research Imaging Center, produced one of the award-winning images from the NIH’s 2022 Show Us Your BRAINs Photo and Video contest.
August 23, 2022
Experiments from the UNC School of Medicine lab of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, show how a common molecular tool for DNA labeling also has anticancer properties worthy of further investigation, especially for brain cancers.
August 17, 2022
The Women’s Irritability, Stress, and Estrogen Study aims to understand the biological mechanisms underlying the relationship between estrogen changes and increased irritability during the menopause transition.
August 9, 2022
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation awarded more than $7.9 million in grants to 16 early-career physician scientists, including two from the UNC School of Medicine – Andrea Knittel, MD, PhD and Peyton Thompson, MD.
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.
August 8, 2022
Led by Martina Kovarova, PhD, Miriam Braunstein, PhD, and J. Victor Garcia, PhD, UNC School of Medicine researchers showed in vivo efficacy of a long-acting injectable formulation of the anti-TB drug rifabutin.
August 3, 2022
Listing of recent competitive grant awards to SOM faculty with project start dates from July 15 - 31, 2022.