July 16, 2021
Accepting Proposals: 2021-22 SOM / NCTraCS Translational Team Science Awards
Proposals for the 2021-22 TTSA awards are now being accepted. The deadline for proposals September 15, 2021.
July 16, 2021
Proposals for the 2021-22 TTSA awards are now being accepted. The deadline for proposals September 15, 2021.
July 16, 2021
The UNC School of Medicine Office of Graduate Education published findings in PLOS Biology showing that graduate students who partake in professional development opportunities unrelated to their lab work did not delay their time to graduation or their rate of manuscript publication.
July 12, 2021
Lisa Carey, MD, member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the clinical implications of the phase 3 FeDeriCa trial in HER2-positive breast cancer.
July 8, 2021
Ed Browne, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, is the principal investigator of a $4-million, 5-year study of the role of cannabis use in HIV latency – one of the main barriers toward curing people with the infection.
July 8, 2021
It is the first scientific article looking at breakthrough cases among vaccinated people in a correctional setting.
July 6, 2021
JAMA Surgery journal continues its dominance with new impact factor of 14.77, maintaining its status as #1 in the world and the highest ranked surgical journal in history.
July 1, 2021
Daisy Zamora, PhD, assistant professor in the department of Psychiatry, co-authored a study showing how a change in diet based on certain classes of fatty acids decreased headaches in patients over a 16-week period.
July 1, 2021
Damaris Lorenzo, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, led the discovery of a new neurodevelopmental syndrome, its underlying genetic basis and molecular mechanisms, both important milestones on the road to create therapeutic strategies.
July 1, 2021
Two medications, liraglutide and insulin, were better at keeping A1C (a measurement of average blood glucose) levels less than 7% in recent GRADE study. The UNC Diabetes Care Center, led by site principal investigator Sue Kirkman, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, was one of the 37 sites to be a part of this NIH-funded comparative effectiveness study.
June 24, 2021
Led by John Batsis, MD, researchers completed a comprehensive review of 315 existing clinical trials of weight loss supplements and therapies, and most of the studies showed the supplements did not produce weight loss among users.
June 24, 2021
Led by Katie Baldwin, PhD, research published in Neuron shows how the loss of the protein hepaCAM drives brain development dysfunction and plays an important role in neurological disorders.
June 23, 2021
UNC School of Medicine scientists led by Aravinda de Silva, PhD, identified the small subpopulation of antibodies in vaccinated children that correlate with protection against dengue fever. This research should help shape better vaccines for one of the most widespread infectious diseases in the world.