March 7, 2023
Medical students Amanda Nemecek, Bailey Moran, Bassam Shawamreh, Forrest Wilke, Kayla Tennant, and Maggie Crouse have been accepted into the Fully Integrated Readiness for Service Training (FIRST) Program. The students were selected based on their commitment to the specialties of family medicine, pediatrics and psychiatry.
March 7, 2023
The UNC Academy of Educators is currently seeking nomination for teaching awards until April 19. Self-nominations are encouraged.
March 7, 2023
This award honors faculty who merit recognition for significantly contributing to the advancement of interprofessional education and practice by developing intentional opportunities for students to learn from, with, and about each other to advance health.
March 6, 2023
Poster abstract submissions are due April 8 for those interested in presenting their work at the AOE Alan W. Cross Evening of Scholarship on June 1 at the Friday Center.
March 1, 2023
Latest grant awards for project dates from Feb. 15 - Feb. 28, 2023, with an award amount greater than $100,000.
March 1, 2023
The UNC School of Medicine is accepting applications for bridge and boost funding. The deadline for applications is April 24.
March 1, 2023
Founded on enhancing research and scholarship toward excellence in teaching, the AOE seeks faculty, staff and trainees, from main campus and regional North Carolina campuses, who are committed to medical and biomedical education. Applications are due by April 19.
February 21, 2023
All six basic science departments rank in the top 10 in National Institutes of Health funding for federal fiscal year 2022, according to a new report by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, and 11 clinical departments rank in the top 30. The UNC Department of Genetics is ranked first among peer public schools of medicine.
February 15, 2023
Researchers from the UNC School of Medicine, led by Ian Shih, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Neurology and Associate Director of the Biomedical Research Imaging Center, revealed the role of the insular cortex in controlling the Default Mode Brain Network.
February 15, 2023
This APWIMS spring event, sponsored by the Association of Professional Women in Medical Sciences (APWIMS) and the Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development (FALD), will focus on finding power through your networks.
February 9, 2023
A UAB-UNC School of Medicine collaboration found that a single oral dose of the common antibiotic azithromycin reduced the risk of maternal sepsis or death by 33 percent in women who delivered vaginally. UNC School of Medicine study leads were Melissa Bauserman, MD, MPH, Carl Bose, MD, and Jackie Patterson, MD, MPH.
February 9, 2023
Rahima Benhabbour, PhD, MSc, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering, led a successful effort to create an injectable implant that can release effective HIV PrEP medications into the body for six months in non-human primates.