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FPG CCHD Seminar — Addressing the Impact of Adversity across the Lifespan: Understanding Mechanisms & Interventions

Virtual

The UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) is pleased to announce the theme for the Carolina Consortium on Human Development (CCHD) series for Fall 2022. This consortium series, Trauma in the Lives of Children and Youth: Current research directions across diverse disciplines, contexts, and methodologies, will be virtual. FPG’s upcoming CCHD seminar will … Read more

Advanced Technologies in Radiation Oncology: Impact on our Day-to-Day Practice – Research to Practice (UNC Lineberger Cancer Network)

Please join the UNCLCN for this Research to Practice webinar with Arthur Blackstock, Jr., MD. Wednesday, August 24, from 12:00 to 1:00 PM. More information and registration at unclcn.org/08242022. Research to Practice CME — NCPD/CNE — ACPE — ASRT — CTR Live Webinar August 24 12:00 – 1:00 PM  Advanced Technologies in Radiation Oncology: Impact … Read more

Health Equity Research Intensive

The UNC Center for Health Equity Research’s (CHER) Health Equity Research Intensive (HERI) is a unique opportunity to join other researchers to learn how to design more inclusive health equity research projects. HERI will introduce you to research methods and tools that emphasize partnership and engagement across all stages of research, from idea conception to budgeting to … Read more

Vaccination and Its Historical Discontents: The Long-Term View on Skepticism and ‘Personal Belief Exemptions’

Virtual

Elena Conis, PhD, MS, MJ Associate Professor Graduate School of Journalism – Department of History – CSTMS University of California, Berkeley Elena Conis, Ph.D. is a writer and historian of medicine, public health, and the environment. Prior to joining the Graduate School of Journalism, she was a professor of history and the Mellon Fellow in … Read more

Children’s Research Institute Seminar Series: “Applications of Adeno-Associated Virus Vector Mediated Gene Delivery in Pediatrics”

Virtual

While significant progress continues to be made in adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector mediated gene delivery in clinical trials, several challenges remain in improving AAV transduction efficiency, tropism, and immunity to the AAV capsid and transgene. The main research focus of the Li lab is to develop effective strategies to overcome these barriers and enhance AAV … Read more

MHI Seminar Series presents Kryn Stankunas, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biology Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

About the Principal Investigator:  The Stankunas laboratory pursues research on fundamental questions of vertebrate organ development and regeneration. They combine mouse and zebrafish genetics with cell, molecular, and systems biology approaches to determine how cell signals interface with epigenetic information to allow the heart, bone, and other organs/tissues to form and repair. They also develop … Read more

Merrimon Lecture: Finding the ‘Greater Good’ in an Era of Polarization: What Vaccine Hesitancy Has Taught Us

4008 Old Clinic Auditorium, Chapel Hill

The 45th Merrimon Lecture Heidi J Larson, Ph.D. Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science Director, The Vaccine Confidence Project London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Heidi J. Larson, Ph.D., is a Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science and is the Founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of … Read more

Introduction to Assessing and Treating Trauma in Individuals with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities

Virtual

Jean Mankowski, Ph.D. Dr. Jean Mankowski is a licensed psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor who has practiced at the CIDD for 15 years.  She specializes in the assessment and treatment of individuals with behavioral and/or psychiatric difficulties in the context of neurodevelopmental disability. Dr.  Mankowski will review how experiences of trauma manifest in individuals with … Read more

10th Annual Sickle Cell Disease Conference

We are excited to announce that the 10th Annual Sickle Cell Disease Conference: Carolina Update, hosted collaboratively by University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Sickle Cell Disease Program and Duke University School of Nursing, is scheduled for two virtual sessions on Friday, September 16th, 2022 and Saturday, September 17th, 2022 from 10AM to 12:30PM. The … Read more

Whole Community Connection Application Q&A

Whole Community Connection invites applications from existing community-academic partnerships advancing health and well-being in Edgecombe or Robeson County. Selected teams participate in leadership development and receive funding to implement community-led solutions. The call for applications closes Oct. 18. Selected teams participate in one year of leadership development focused on building relationships for collective and community-led action … Read more