October 1, 2021
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill research set the stage to seek emergency authorization of the first oral antiviral drug to treat COVID-19, a pill developed by the pharmaceutical companies Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics. William Fischer, MD, at the UNC School of Medicine led pivotal clinical trials on the drug molnupiravir.
September 29, 2021
UNC School of Medicine’s 54th annual Student Research Day will take place on Friday, November 12th, 2021. Historically, this has been a symposium-style event highlighting the research achievements of UNC medical students, giving them the opportunity to present their work. Due to the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic, the event will be held virtually, with live video sessions. If you are interested in serving as a judge, please submit here: https://unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d5VvRT1BAt5ZouG.
September 29, 2021
The Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care will host an interactive mini-symposium exploring mechanisms for predicting how a patient's genome will influence their response to medications, implementing pharmacogenomics in the clinic, and development of EHR support.
September 29, 2021
Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, has been appointed as a UNC WRHR Scholar. Her primary research is focused on increasing access to cervical cancer prevention in low-income countries.
September 28, 2021
UNC School of Medicine, the World Health Organization, and the Ethiopian Public Health Institute conducted a joint study to find that malaria parasites are spreading undetected across the Horn of Africa, posing a major health threat to the region. Lead UNC lead investigator Jonathan Parr, MD, MPH, is senior author of this Nature Microbiology paper.
September 23, 2021
The UNC SOM John B. Graham Student Research Society is currently calling for abstracts for oral and poster presentations for our annual Student Research Day to be held on Friday, November 12, 2021. Abstracts are due on October 1st, and we will communicate decisions on oral and poster presentations by October 8th. The abstract submission link can be found here: https://forms.gle/SFM6mtt7SvzddNHF9. Please reach out to JBGResearchSociety@med.unc.edu with any questions!
September 23, 2021
Funding for UNC School of Medicine research reached an all-time high of $584 million during fiscal year 2021. Researchers were awarded $357 million from the National Institutes of Health.
September 23, 2021
Hongwei Du, PhD, and Gianpietro Dotti, MD, published research in Nature Cancer showing that a dual-threat CAR-T immunotherapy was effective in animal models of neuroblastoma, a nerve cell cancer.
September 22, 2021
Jonathan Berg, MD, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, is a principal investigator of The Clinical Genome Resource, a multi-institution consortium initially launched in 2013 by the National Human Genome Research Institute to provide evidence-based evaluations of clinically relevant genes and variants.
September 22, 2021
The Women’s Health Multidisciplinary Consortium (WHMC), a new initiative focused on creating a unified, multidisciplinary community with a vested interest in advancing the health of women and training the next generation, will begin a “hot topics” seminar series this fall.
September 22, 2021
The UNC School of Medicine lab of Mehmet Kesimer, PhD, has further illuminated the molecular intricacies of mucus and its role in pulmonary diseases, laying more groundwork for better therapies for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other airway conditions. The findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
September 15, 2021
Brea Hampton, a PhD candidate in the Genetics & Molecular Biology (GMB) curriculum and member of the Department of Genetics, has been awarded a competitive five-year Transition to Aging Research Award for Predoctoral Students from the National Institute of Aging (NIA).