March 17, 2022
A qualitative study led by UNC School of Medicine student Lily Hale details what primary care providers and endocrine specialty clinicians reported about their patients’ self-management of diabetes during the pandemic and the effectiveness of providers’ support.
March 15, 2022
Trig is providing the Design Thinking for Healthcare Providers workshop series for UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC Health. FastTraCS, part of NC TraCS, will be sponsoring teams following application review, valued at $3,000. We are seeking passionate healthcare providers who want to make an impact. We strongly encourage applications from all provider types including physicians, advanced practice providers (PA-C, NP, etc), nurses, medical students, residents, and others.
March 9, 2022
Black and Latinx patients who used an inhaled glucocorticoid as needed along with usual care had improved asthma outcomes, according to results from a PREPARE, PeRson EmPowered Asthma RElief, trial. Michelle Hernandez, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, was the UNC School of Medicine principal investigator and worked with the study lead, Elliot Israel, MD, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, to design the trial.
March 8, 2022
The NC TraCS Recruitment & Retention program launched its Participant Recruitment Resource Center, a SharePoint site that houses resources and templates for recruitment and retention planning, strategy, and material design.
March 8, 2022
The NC TraCS Regulatory service now provides quality assurance and study monitoring for investigator-initiated studies on a fee-for-hire basis.
March 8, 2022
In a highly competitive year for the 2022 Deborah C. Leary Award, Daniel "Dan" Bacon's journal article titled "COVID-19 related olfactory dysfunction prevalence and natural history in ambulatory patients" took the top spot.
March 7, 2022
Based on previous research on access to telehealth services for inpatient populations, a new study by Kimberly Shoenbill, MD, PhD, and colleagues considers how access to telehealth services is impacted by social determinates of health using five-digit zip codes mapped to the CDC's Social Vulnerability Index.
March 2, 2022
The UNC School of Medicine is accepting applications for Bridge / Boost Funding. The deadline for applications is April 25, 2022.
March 1, 2022
The Translational Team Science Awards program is aimed at capitalizing on UNC-Chapel Hill’s culture of collaboration and fostering interdisciplinary teams of basic science and clinical investigators.
February 28, 2022
UNC Peers for Progress is funded as the Community, Family, and Peer Support Core of the University of Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research. UNC-Chapel Hill researchers are eligible to apply for Pilot and Feasibility awards of up to $50,000 through the Michigan Center.
February 24, 2022
The compound CMX521 significantly reduced lung viral titer and symptoms in a SARS-CoV-2 mouse model, as reported by biomedical company Chimerix in collaboration with the Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill. UNC School of Medicine faculty Nat Moorman, PhD, and Mark Heise, PhD, are key researchers in this program.
February 23, 2022
NC TraCS is recruiting candidates for a 1-year postdoctoral fellowship in translational science. Applications accepted on a rolling basis for appointment in 2022.