The Society’s Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture is a prestigious biennial lecture, awarded to distinguished physiologists working outside the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland.
Led by John Buse, MD, PhD, and Anna Kahkoska, MD, PhD, this analysis showed that GLP1-RA and SGLT2i medication use for type 2 diabetes of hospitalized COVID-19 patients was associated…
NC State researchers led by Ke Cheng, PhD, created a therapeutic approach that mimics the receptor that the virus binds to and then traps the virus before it infect cells….
James F. Howard Jr., MD, Distinguished Professor in the UNC Department of Neurology, was principal investigator of the promising phase 3 trial for the experimental drug efgartigimod.
Results from the Novavax phase III clinical trial for its COVID-19 vaccine show an overall efficacy of 90%, and demonstrate 100% protection against moderate and severe disease. The study enrolled…
Announcements, Covid-19 / Coronavirus, News, Research, School of Medicine, Vital Signs
As Juneteenth is celebrated, please take a moment to consider the significance of the day, all that it represents, and the work we can each do to make our UNC…
The new $38-million National Institutes of Health consortium – led at UNC-Chapel Hill by Yun Li, PhD – will develop better ways to use polygenic risk scores in diverse communities…
Awards, Rankings and Recognitions, Genetics And Aging, News, Research
The UNC School of Medicine Academy of Educators (AOE), housed within the Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development, has elected two new members to its Leadership Council.
The Foundation Phase (the first three semesters) of the School of Medicine’s MD curriculum seeks multiple faculty to serve as facilitators of case-based learning (CBL) sessions for first-year medical students in…
In an article in Family Medicine, authors Cristy Page, MD, MPH, Linda Myerholtz, PhD, and Hannah Baker, MPH enlisted an expert panel to identify elements of feedback culture that foster…
The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty during the past week, starting Thursday June 10, 2021.
Scientists led by UNC School of Medicine researchers Silvia Kreda, PhD, and Rudolph Juliano, PhD, created an improved oligonucleotide therapy strategy with the potential for treating other pulmonary diseases, such…
This pre-clinical research offers evidence that vaccinating young children could help prevent the spread of COVID-19, limit disease severity, and achieve herd immunity.
UNC Children’s is nationally ranked in seven subspecialties, two in the top 25.
Awards, Rankings and Recognitions, News, Pediatrics And Children's Health
In partnership with local people and health professionals, Joe Tucker, MD, PhD, and UNC Global Health colleagues developed a pay-it-forward intervention to promote influenza vaccination among at-risk individuals during COVID-19.
David Lynch, MD, and John Batsis, MD, wrote a Doximity op-ed on key takeaways from the American Geriatrics Society 2021 Annual Meeting May 12–15.
UNC is part of a national effort, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Diversity Program Consortium, to identify best mentoring practices for scientists underrepresented in biomedical research.
UNC is part of a national effort, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Diversity Program Consortium, to identify best mentoring practices for scientists underrepresented in biomedical research.
An ad hoc committee has been appointed to undertake a routine review of the leadership provided by Henrik Dohlman, PhD, Chair of the Department of Pharmacology. The review is a…
The SOM’s curriculum seeks multiple faculty to serve as facilitators of case-based learning (CBL) sessions for first-year medical students in the 2022-23 academic year.
