March 28, 2023
NC TraCS Institute is seeking proposals that focus on understanding a scientific or operational principle underlying a step of the translational research process, with the goal of developing generalizable principles to accelerate translational research.
March 24, 2023
An ad hoc committee has been appointed to undertake a routine review of the Department of Genetics and the leadership of its chair, Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, PhD, professor and Olivier Smithies Investigator. The review is a standard procedure of UNC-Chapel Hill and will take place on April 24.
March 9, 2023
Yoshiko Iwai, MS, a third-year student at the UNC School of Medicine, is the corresponding author of a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.
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
UNC-Chapel Hill is part of a national effort funded by the National Institutes of Health Diversity Program Consortium to identify best mentoring practices for scientists underrepresented in biomedical research.
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 1, 2023
The UNC School of Medicine is accepting applications for bridge and boost funding. The deadline for applications is April 24.
February 28, 2023
David Wohl, MD, and Billy Fischer, MD, published an op-ed in the News & Observer, The Charlotte Observer, and McClatchy subsidiaries on their work trying to gain a better understanding of COVID-19 through a largely observation study of thousands of volunteers in North Carolina.
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 2, 2023
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
Narges Farahi, MD, MPH, of UNC Family Medicine is PI for a grant to develop and test a holistic polycystic ovary syndrome management program within a federally qualified health center. An interdisciplinary group of co-investigators from UNC OB-GYN, UNC School of Social Work, Piedmont Health, GWU and the Collaborative for Maternal and Infant Health are co-PIs.
February 2, 2023
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.