February 10, 2022
Drs. Katrina Donahue, Jacquie Halladay, Michelle Hernandez, and colleagues published in Health Affairs using the analogy of a watershed to explain the primary care system and how the pandemic has adversely affected its Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs), a vital infrastructure that provides the capacity to assess and improve health outcomes where most people receive care.
February 9, 2022
UNC is part of a national effort, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Diversity Program Consortium, to identify best mentoring practices for scientists underrepresented in biomedical research.
February 9, 2022
Early career faculty and postdoctoral fellows (MD, PhD, MD/PhD, or DO) who identify as belonging to an underrepresented group AND who are engaged in biomedical research are invited to attend a virtual lunch session to learn more about the PROMISE research study and meet the research team.
February 9, 2022
Funding for the current CTSA grant ends in February 2023. Because we cannot guarantee uninterrupted pilot support until we know that NC TraCS funding is secure, we are suspending the TraCS $2K, $2K Stakeholder Engagement Voucher, FastTraCS, and $5-50K Pilot Programs for the time being.
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.