May 31, 2023
Latest Grant Awards to SOM Faculty
The latest grants awarded to UNC School of Medicine faculty with project start dates from May 1 - 15, 2023, and award amounts greater than $100,000.
May 31, 2023
The latest grants awarded to UNC School of Medicine faculty with project start dates from May 1 - 15, 2023, and award amounts greater than $100,000.
May 31, 2023
Lauren Frazer, Dominique Higgins, Kara Klein, Jose Martinez and Justin Sperlazza will receive support from the UNC School of Medicine Physician Scientists Training Program to cultivate their careers as translational clinical scientists.
May 22, 2023
Researchers in the UNC School of Medicine's Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the UNC-NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering have developed a new strategy to improve drug-delivery into chronic wounds infections.
May 18, 2023
Mental health disorders, specifically depression, and anxiety, are among the top five chronic conditions contributing to overall healthcare costs in the United States and rank first in global disease burden in terms of years lived with a disability1. Individuals with mental illness have higher rates of chronic disease including cardiovascular disease, asthma, diabetes, and cancer, …
May 17, 2023
Coinciding with National Women’s Health Week, the UNC Center for Women's Health Research launched its third Women’s Health Research Poster Presentation and Awards Program showcasing research being done by faculty and staff, graduate and undergraduate students, and postdocs, including residents and fellows, of UNC-Chapel Hill.
May 12, 2023
Jennifer S. Smith, PhD, at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC School of Medicine, and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, led the phase 3 controlled trial, which showed that self-collection kits and scheduling assistance are key for reaching these populations and preventing cervical cancer.
May 11, 2023
The study, called EPITOPE, led by senior author A. Wesley Burks, MD, CEO of UNC Health and dean of the UNC School of Medicine, and contributing author Edwin Kim, MD, MS, associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at the UNC School of Medicine, shows superior results in desensitizing children to peanuts. Results were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
May 8, 2023
It's a big step forward in using extracellular vesicles (EVs) as a diagnostic tool. Lead study author, J. Nathaniel Diehl, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, led research showing how a new protocol in handling extracellular vesicles can improve significant diagnostic and therapeutic potential in disease development.
April 27, 2023
UNC School of Medicine’s Patrick Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, and a team of scientists in the Psychiatric Genetic Consortium have created a new manual researchers can use to learn more about the origins of human diseases with high genetic risk.
April 26, 2023
Yael Shiloh-Malawsky, MD, co-investigators Diana Cejas, MD, MPH, and Jane Fan, MD, and study coordinator Yulissa Gonzalez led the UNC School of Medicine site for a clinical trial of a FDA-approved Rett syndrome treatment from Acadia Pharmaceuticals.
April 26, 2023
Department of Emergency Medicine faculty members Martin Casey, MD, MPH, and Michelle Meyer, PhD, MPH, were awarded one of ten scholar and mentor program grants from the National Foundation of Emergency Medicine. The 2-year program supports outstanding teams of mentors and scholars in emergency medicine.
April 26, 2023
The Department of Cell Biology and Physiology and Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation were the basic science and clinical departments with the most participation in new database.