January 20, 2021
Anyone 18 or older who works in a healthcare setting is eligible to join the HERO Registry. Those who receive a vaccine for COVID-19 can self-enroll through the HERO Registry participant portal within 60 days of receiving a vaccine.
January 20, 2021
The purpose of this program is to strengthen the capacities of state and/or local-level organizations to respond to emerging public health issues affecting maternal and child health (MCH) populations. This funding opportunity is a mechanism to support capacity and strengthening activities to improve state and/or local-level organizations’ abilities to address emerging issues threatening the health and well-being of MCH populations in an effective, timely manner.
January 20, 2021
Here's the current listing of recent competitive grant awards to UNC School of Medicine faculty.
January 20, 2021
Li Qian, PhD, associate professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and associate director of the McAllister Heart Institute, has received the prestigious Emerging Investigator Award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, a part of the NIH. The award includes $6.5 million in funding over seven years.
January 13, 2021
Kaplan, a fourth-year student in the School of Medicine and recent graduate of the Gillings School of Global Public Health, has published an op ed about telehealth as a tool for expanding access to care and promoting health equity.
January 13, 2021
The Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering program invests in future leaders who have the freedom to take risks, explore new frontiers in their fields of study, and follow uncharted paths that may lead to groundbreaking discoveries. Twenty recipients will receive individual grants of $875,000 distributed over five years.
January 6, 2021
The SOM Office of Research released its annual publication that includes the most noteworthy 1-2 research highlights provided by each SOM Department.
December 31, 2020
Cindy Gay, MD, is leading the phase III clinical trial of the promising COVID-19 vaccine candidate for the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Medical Center. Gay also leads the UNC Moderna vaccine phase III clinical trial. (Update: these clinical trials are no longer enrolling participants.)
December 18, 2020
Greg Scherrer, PhD, associate professor in the UNC Department of Cell biology and Physiology and member of the UNC Neuroscience Center, will use the three-year, $300,000 grant to study the neural basis of pain.
December 16, 2020
The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this NHGRI R25 program is to support educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research.
December 16, 2020
The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this NHGRI R25 program is to help recruit individuals with specific specialty or disciplinary backgrounds to research careers in biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) will support innovative educational activities with a primary focus on Research Experiences.
December 11, 2020
Using a custom-built exposure chamber, UNC School of Medicine and EPA scientists tested consumer-grade masks and improvised face coverings to show how effective they can be at protecting individuals from airborne particles of similar size to those carrying SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.