March 6, 2023
Academy of Educators Seeks Medical Education Abstracts
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.
Category: School of Medicine
March 1, 2023
Latest Grant Awards to SOM Faculty
Latest grant awards for project dates from Feb. 15 - Feb. 28, 2023, with an award amount greater than $100,000.
March 1, 2023
SOM Office of Research Accepting Applications for Bridge and Boost Funding
The UNC School of Medicine is accepting applications for bridge and boost funding. The deadline for applications is April 24.
March 1, 2023
Academy of Educators Accepting New Member Applications
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
UNC School of Medicine NIH Funding Ranks 6th among Public Universities
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
Novel Optical and fMRI Platform Identifies Brain Regions that Control Large-scale Brain Network
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
Register Now for the APWIMS Spring Event – Powering Up: Leveraging Networks for Success
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
Single Dose of Azithromycin Reduces Maternal Sepsis or Death
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
CDC-UNC Collaboration Yields Potential Long-term HIV Protection
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.
February 2, 2023
UNC School of Medicine Seeks Assistant Dean for Preclinical Curriculum
The University of North Carolina School of Medicine (SOM) seeks an innovative, collaborative leader to serve as the Assistant Dean for Preclinical Curriculum in the Offices of Medical Student Education. This position reports directly to the Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs and requires 40% FTE. Applications are due by Sunday, February 26.
February 2, 2023
Whole Community Connection Awards Rural Community-Academic Partnerships
WCC supports cohorts of leaders to advance health equity in rural North Carolina by increasing local power to focus on priorities by and at the community level and co-creating a model of relationship centered engagement.
January 23, 2023
Grad Student Kaitlan Smith Reflects on Lumbee Heritage While Embarking on Curiosity-driven Science
Pharmacology graduate student Kaitlan Smith was recently awarded a diversity supplement from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to study the effects of aging and necroptosis. She shares her resilient journey into scientific research while reflecting on her Lumbee roots.