READY TO RESPOND: An Inside Look Into UNC’s SPARC Program
The UNC Special Pathogens Response Center (SPARC) at UNC Hospitals is a regional and national resource for safely caring for patients with a special pathogen. Get an inside look on…
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Study Reveals “Cell Death Cascade” in Airway Cells Infected with SARS-CoV-2
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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Five Questions with Elizabeth Minor
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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Researchers Show SARS-Cov-2 Infection Affects Energy Stores in the Body, Causing Organ Failure
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 joins long COVID clinical trials through NIH RECOVER Initiative, opening enrollment
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,…
UNC Department of Family Medicine Authors Second Edition of Chronic Illness Care Textbook
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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COVID-19 Vaccines Produce Antibody Response in the Nasal Mucosa
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…
Study Shows Metformin Lowers Long COVID Risk
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…
Raffa Talks With CNN Health About the Increase in Kids Treated for Illicit Substance Ingestion
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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NC COVID Experts: We Still Have Blind Spots Understanding the Virus. You Can Help.
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 RECOVER Research Identifies Potential long COVID Disparities
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…
Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Offers Long-term Protection Against Severe Disease
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…
UNC Launches Largest COVID-19 Observational Study of its Kind in North Carolina
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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UNC Children’s Enrolling Participants for Paxlovid Pill Study
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…
Inhalable COVID-19 Vaccine Shows Promise in Rodent Model
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…
Roper Publishes Editorial on Science, Public Health, and Politics
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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Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine Q&A with Dr. Cindy Gay
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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Pfaff Featured in NIH Director’s Blog
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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Miller Featured in News and Observer Article as COVID Testing Expert
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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Scientists Use Machine Learning Models to Help Identify Long COVID Patients
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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