Researchers in the lab of Jenny Ting, PhD, the William Kenan Distinguished Professor of Genetics and professor of microbiology and immunology, have made numerous findings about how cell death from…
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In this new Vital Signs series, we feature graduate student Elizabeth Minor in the Ehre lab. Inspired by an immunology and cancer immunotherapy class during her time at the University…
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An international research team, including Jonathan C. Schisler, PhD, in the UNC School of Medicine, has found how SARS-CoV-2 causes widespread “energy outages” throughout major organs, and how these effects…
UNC has been selected as a participating site in the RECOVER-VITAL trial. A team of clinicians and researchers from across UNC will contribute to this nationwide work by identifying, treating,…
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…
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A new study by researchers in the UNC School of Medicine, including Meghan Rebuli, PhD, Ilona Jaspers, PhD, and Kevin T. Cao, has found that SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination produces a…
John Buse, MD, PhD, co-authored a study showing that the common diabetes drug metformin substantially decreased the risk of developing long COVID after infection from SARS-CoV-2. The clinical trial was…
The outbreak of Covid-19 presented many dangers for children, and a new study suggests increased illicit substance ingestions were among them. Lead study author Brittany Raffa, MD, clinical instructor in…
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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…
NIH-supported studies, including one from UNC School of Medicine’s Emily Pfaff, PhD, co-first author of the study, Coding long COVID: characterizing a new disease through an ICD-10 lens, show variations…
This research in an infant model was led by researchers from the UNC School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine and University of California, Davis. Kristina De Paris, PhD, professor in…
A new North Carolina study called VISION is now underway to answer some of the biggest questions about COVID-19. Led by William Fischer, MD, principal investigator, and David Wohl, MD,…
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The Clinical Trials Unit in the UNC Children’s Research Institute is a site for a national study to assess the efficacy of Paxlovid, a pill to treat COVID in children…
Ke Cheng, PhD, in the Joint UNC-NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, in collaboration with colleagues at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University, led the development of the vaccine prototype from…
William L. Roper, MD, MPH, former dean of the UNC School of Medicine and CEO of UNC Health, wrote an editorial for the journal Science on “the roles of science…
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An independent expert advisory committee recommended 21-0 that the FDA grant emergency use authorization for a fourth COVID-19 vaccine, made by Novavax. Cindy Gay, MD, MPH, discusses the Novavax data,…
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NIH Director’s Blog features a UNC-led study on how a well-trained computer and its artificial intelligence can help identify potential Long COVID patients. The study, led by UNC School of…
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Melissa Miller, PhD, director of the Clinical Molecular Microbiology Laboratory at UNC Medical Center, talks with the News and Observer about why an at-home COVID test might give false-negative results…
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A study published in The Lancet Digital Health led by UNC School of Medicine’s Emily R. Pfaff, PhD, shows how the National COVID Cohort Collaborative used XGBoost machine learning models…
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Jenny Ting, PhD, the William Kenan Distinguished Professor of Genetics, and Ralph Baric, PhD, the William Kenan Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Microbiology & Immunology, were elected as members of…
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