February 9, 2022
Genetics faculty in the SOM have been funded for the next 5 years by the NIH to establish the UNC Educational Pathways to Increase Diversity in GEnomics (EDGE) training program to provide early career education, mentoring, and research skills to undergraduate students from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds who are interested in careers in genomics.
February 9, 2022
Co-edited by Claudia S.P. Fernandez, DrPH, and Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, healthcare experts from nurses to social workers present a way forward which shifts away from our fragmented and often judgmental approach to health in the new book Leading Community Based Changes in the Culture of Health in the US - Experiences in Developing the Team and Impacting the Community.
February 9, 2022
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded $1.5 million to Charles Carter, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, who will lead lab experiments showing how critical molecules precisely interacted, evolved together, and led to life on Earth billions of years ago.
February 8, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated a critical need to establish a pre-emptive stockpile of tangible immunobiological countermeasures to accelerate the response to potential pandemic threats. To address this need we have established a pandemic response repository through microbial and immunological surveillance and epidemiology (PREMISE) initiative.
February 3, 2022
UNC researchers optimized the function of a microscope for cryogenic electron microscopy (CryoEM) to maximize the throughput and performance of the microscope housed in the UNC Chapel Hill Cryo-EM Core Facility. This method development is demonstrated successful for structural studies of GPCRs, a large group of signaling proteins that includes many therapeutic targets with unknown structures.
January 31, 2022
These NIH centers are led by Elizabeth Mayer-Davis, PhD, and Susan Sumner, PhD, at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Three researchers part of these centers hold primary appointments with the UNC School of Medicine -- Steven Cotten, PhD, Tom Keyserling, MD, MPH, and John Batsis, MD.
January 31, 2022
The UNC Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology, led by Ilona Jaspers, PhD, was awarded an EPA cooperative agreement for $4.5 million over three years.
January 31, 2022
Rebekah Layton, PhD, Director of Professional Development Programs at the UNC School of Medicine, co-authored a new PLOS ONE study examining common themes across stakeholder groups both in and outside of academia.
January 26, 2022
This research, led by Jean Cook, PhD, and Liu Mei, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, may help explain why certain parts of the genome become highly mutable in some cancers.
January 26, 2022
UNC-Chapel Hill researchers publishing in journals from PLOS will no longer need to pay article processing charges. The waiver is thanks to the University Libraries’ participation in several PLOS publishing partnerships. The agreements pilot various ways for institutions to reduce the fee burden for open access publishing and to increase the amount of high-quality peer-reviewed research in open circulation.
January 26, 2022
TraCS Team Science is seeking to assist UNC researchers with the formation and development of multidisciplinary research teams focused on tackling challenging problems in clinical or translational medicine through the new ACTeR program. Phase 2 provides up to $50,000 and up to 0.5 FTE Project Manager support for up to 12 months to support the generation of preliminary data and grant application preparation. Submissions are due March 16, 2022.
January 25, 2022
Join PROMISE PIs Dr. Susan Girdler, Dr. Friederike Jayes, and the PROMISE research staff for more information on participating in research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Diversity Program Consortium, to identify best mentoring practices for scientists underrepresented in biomedical research.