April 20, 2021
New block co-director in the Foundation Phase
Marcy Willis-Gray has been selected as co-director of the Reproductive Block in the Foundation Phase curriculum.
Category: Strategic Plan
March 11, 2021
Division of Radiologic Science Welcomes Amy Dela Cruz as Director of Ultrasound Curriculum
Amy Dela Cruz has joined the faculty of the Division of Radiologic Science as an assistant professor. She will lead the division's new ultrasound curriculum.
February 17, 2021
UNC School of Medicine announces sixth class of FIRST Scholars
The UNC School of Medicine is pleased to announce the acceptance of the sixth class of the Fully Integrated Readiness for Service Training (FIRST) Program.
February 9, 2021
Antiviral Proves Effective at Preventing, Treating COVID-19 In Lab
Using a novel in vivo research model containing human lung tissue, UNC School of Medicine scientists led by Victor Garcia, PhD, and Angela Wahl, PhD, demonstrated that the broad spectrum, experimental drug EIDD-2801 proved dramatically effective at preventing and treating SARS-CoV-2 infection in human tissue in the lab.
November 3, 2020
Center for Animal MRI at BRIC Receives NIH Grants to Upgrade Facilities
The Center for Animal MRI (CAMRI) at the Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), led by Ian Shih, PhD, received two National Institutes of Health grants totaling $2.6 million for a new MRI instrument and to upgrade an existing MRI system.
October 14, 2020
Celebrating Our COVID-19 Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine
UNC-Chapel Hill is one of the top coronavirus research universities in the world. Check out this video celebrating COVID-19 research at the UNC School of Medicine.
August 5, 2020
UNC School of Medicine Research Funding Increases $24 million in FY20
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, The UNC School of Medicine research funding increased by more than $24 million during fiscal year 2020.
July 23, 2020
Four Scholars Named to Physician Scientist Training Program
Alena Markmann, MD, PhD, Erin Steinbach, MD, PhD, Tessa Andermann, MD, PhD, and Peyton Thompson, MD, will receive support from the Physician Scientists Training Program at the UNC School of Medicine to cultivate their careers as translational clinician scientists.
April 8, 2020
Open Science Drug Discovery Partnership, READDI, Aims to Invest $125 Million to Prevent Future Pandemics
The Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative (READDI) involves researchers from the UNC School of Medicine, the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
July 11, 2019
School of Medicine Expands Effort to Better Clinical Research Process Improvement, Plans to Create CRSO
A workgroup led by NC TraCS and comprised of leadership from the UNC School of Medicine and UNC’s Office of Research is working to establish a new Clinical Research Support Office, which will be charged with advancing clinical research process improvement – a major priority of the Research Imperative within Forward Together, the School of Medicine’s Strategic Plan.