March 10, 2025
With a designation from the FDA, a device created and patented by Flavio Frohlich, PhD, professor of psychiatry at the UNC School of Medicine and member of the UNC Neuroscience Center, is one step closer to being available for patients.
June 19, 2024
Headspace, the popular wellness app, is available to UNC Health Employees, a partnership highlighted in a two-part episode of the TarHeal Wellness podcast exploring the partnership and available resources, including evidence-based meditation and mindfulness tools, mental health coaching, therapy, psychiatry, and family support.
February 8, 2024
The UNC School of Medicine is on pace to become one of the few sites in the United States to incorporate intestinal ultrasound as an imaging technique for managing Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
July 11, 2023
Springer recently released "Chronic Illness Care, Principles and Practice," edited by UNC Family Medicine's Timothy P. Daaleman, DO, MPH, and Margaret R. Helton, MD. Faculty members in the Department of Family Medicine, faculty across the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, and other national and international experts wrote the textbook.
June 7, 2023
The Clinical Research Alliance will lead the UNC School of Medicine’s coordinating center clinical research enterprise, enabling its world class investigators with new capabilities to lead the design and implementation of multi-site clinical research, while making clinical research more streamlined for researchers, industry partners and trial participants.
June 7, 2023
Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, traveled to the White House on June 1 for the Cancer Moonshot Smoking Cessation Forum. The meeting highlighted the Biden Administration’s commitment to tackling the single biggest driver of cancer deaths in this country—smoking—and efforts underway across sectors to equitably expand access to effective smoking cessation support.
March 30, 2023
Kimberly Shoenbill, MD, PhD, has been named the new director of the UNC Clinical Informatics Fellowship.
February 24, 2023
A research team led by William Polacheck, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, has engineered a microfluidic model that mimics a rare genetic disorder affecting the structure of veins, arteries, capillaries, and lymphatic vessels.
January 25, 2023
Wesley Legant, PhD, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Pharmacology and the UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, received a grant called "Observing Molecules in Context with 4Pi Lattice Light Sheet Nanoscopy" as part of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's (CZI) Dynamic Imaging projects.
January 25, 2023
Michelle Itano, PhD, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, is one of ten co-principal investigators who received a two-year grant called "Curated Imaging Science Education for Learners and Trainers."
November 22, 2022
Jacqueline Halladay, MD, MPH, from UNC Family Medicine, and Doyle “Skip” Cummings, PharmD, from the ECU Brody School of Medicine, are leading a five-year, $5.6 million PCORI grant to understand if a technology-enabled team-based approach results in greater blood pressure control compared to usual care in populations of people with uncontrolled high blood pressure.
August 8, 2022
UNC School of Medicine researchers, led by Ian Shih, PhD, associate professor of Neurology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, developed an improved fiber-based optical method to measure activity changes in the brain.