August
Largest cancer genetic analysis reveals new way of classifying cancer
The work, led by researchers at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC-Chapel Hill and other TCGA sites, revamps traditional ideas of how cancers are diagnosed and treated and could also have a profound impact on the future landscape of drug development.
Many older emergency department patients are malnourished
More than half of patients 65 and older were either malnourished or at risk for malnutrition, study finds.
War vet receives his hearing back
Dr. Oliver Adunka, an ENT surgeon at UNC Health Care, was able to get Dac Carpenter into a clinical trial that installed a sound bridge in one ear. That allows Dac to hear just like he did before he was injured.
UNC Health Care and Alignment Healthcare launch new collaborative, population health program for Medicare beneficiaries in Wake County
The partnership will kick off with the offering of a new Medicare Advantage HMO plan for seniors in Wake County, North Carolina.
MUSC and UNC-Chapel Hill join forces to test a diabetes outreach program
The Bamberg Diabetes Transitional Care Study will utilize cutting-edge iPad technology to explore the impact and feasibility of different diabetes interventions for patients transitioning from the hospital to home.
Join our #T1Dchat on Twitter – Aug. 19 at 1 p.m. ET!
Participating in the chat will be two diabetes experts and co-authors of a new American Diabetes Association position statement on the care of people with type 1 diabetes.
UNC neuroscientist earns NSF grant to build a better way to explore the brain
Spencer Smith, PhD, received one of 36 NSF grants to create better technologies to advance our knowledge of how the brain works in normal circumstances and in disease states.
Building up Medical Education in Baghdad
A new collaboration between the UNC School of Medicine and the University of Baghdad aims to build a better medical education system throughout Iraq.
The Ras Tracker
For more than 20 years, Sharon Campbell, PhD, has been studying Ras, a protein implicated in 30 percent of all cancers. Now she’s on the hunt for alternative ways to shut the protein down.
UNC Lineberger researchers develop new approach to identify “drivers” of cancer
Eight breast cancer genes identified using new approach
The Two-Photon Future
For the Obama BRAIN Initiative, UNC neuroscientist Spencer Smith, PhD, creates a new kind of microscope to study the brain like never before.