Katie Baldwin, PhD, assistant professor of cell biology and physiology in the UNC School of Medicine, received $1.5 million from the NIH to study white brain matter and its contribution…
Evan Nix, MD, and colleagues in the UNC Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery found that about 60% of cochlear implant recipients with hearing preservation had one or more electrode…
News, Otolaryngology And Ear, Nose Throat, Research, School of Medicine
Led by Sam McLean, MD, MPH, University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers and collaborators were awarded $3 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to evaluate the efficacy…
News, North Carolina, Psychiatry And Mental Health, Research
The Doris Duke Foundation honored Christina Cruz, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, as a physician scientist award recipient, dedicated to advancing insights for improved human health.
Announcements, Awards, Rankings and Recognitions, News, Psychiatry And Mental Health, Research
Kristalyn Gallagher, DO, Kevin Chen, MD, and Shawn Gomez, EngScD, in the UNC School of Medicine have developed an AI model that can predict whether or not cancerous tissue has…
Led by scientists at UNC-Chapel Hill and UC-San Francisco, research reveals new non-coding genetic variants associated with Alzheimer’s disease functioning in microglia – brain cells already implicated in the progression…
Led by David Haselbach, PhD, at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, and Nicholas Brown, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, scientists revealed the intercellular choreography that…
Ron Alterovitz, PhD, in the UNC Computer Science Department, and Jason Akulian, MD MPH, in the UNC School of Medicine, have shown that their steerable lung robot can autonomously maneuver…
Led by Hyejung Won, PhD, UNC School of Medicine researchers and colleagues developed a new research model to glean a deeper understanding of the genetic variants implicated in schizophrenia, including…
A phase 2 study, led by Thomas W. Ferkol, MD, at the UNC School of Medicine, demonstrates safety and efficacy of idrevloride with hypertonic saline for treatment of primary ciliary…
Clinical Research, News, Pediatrics And Children's Health, Pulmonology, Research
Jane Little, MD, and Maria Boucher, MD, both in the UNC School of Medicine, detail the current struggles of patients with sickle cell disease and how we can help.
Latest awards include grants to School of Medicine faculty with project start dates in July 2023 and a total award amount greater than $100,000.
Margaret Kasaro, MMed OBGYN, and others at the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have received a ~$3-million award from the Leona M. and…
UNC School of Medicine researchers Angela Wahl, PhD, Balfour Sartor MD, J. Victor Garcia, PhD, and colleagues created a germ-free mouse model to evaluate the role of the microbiome in…
Gastrointestinal, HIV/AIDS, Immunology And Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, News, Research
The new observation, made by UNC School of Medicine’s Stephan Moll, MD, and Jacquelyn Baskin-Miller, MD, suggests that a life-threatening blood clotting disorder can be caused by an infection with…
News, Pediatrics And Children's Health, Research, Vascular Health, Virology
A new study published by UNC Family Medicine’s Sarah Kowitt, PhD, MPH, and colleagues looked at the impact of different types of warning signs for large and premium cigars sold…
Addiction, Cancer, Cardiology and Heart Health, Family Medicine, News, Research, Vital Signs
Researchers in UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and collaborators at Yale Cancer Center and ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group have identified two subtypes of human papillomavirus…
UNC School of Medicine researchers Christopher Sayed, MD, Yun Li, PhD, and Karen Mohlke, PhD, discovered the genomic locations that contribute to the genetic risk of a chronic skin condition.
Rebekah Layton, PhD, and LaKeya Hardy, PhD, in the UNC School of Medicine’s Office of Graduate Education, were co-authors on the article, which highlighted the emerging field of biomedical graduate…
Ilona Jaspers, PhD, director of the UNC Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology, co-authored a study with colleagues from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and…
