This research, led by Jessica Girault, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, was conducted as part of the NIH-funded Infant Brain Imaging Study Network, which used MRI to document…
Led by Juan Song, PhD, scientists at the UNC School of Medicine used optogenetic techniques to stimulate specific brain cells to increase production of neural stem cells and neurons relevant…
UNC-Chapel Hill scientists led by Mark Zylka, PhD, found measurable levels of a biomarker for azoxystrobin in pregnant women and young kids, and investigated the fungicide’s ability to pass from…
James F. Howard, MD, Distinguished Professor of Neuromuscular Disease, Professor of Neurology, Medicine and Allied Health in the UNC School of Medicine, was lead investigator in the Phase 3 clinical…
Restoring lost gene activity prevents many disease signs in an animal model of the rare, single-gene neurodevelopmental condition. The UNC Neuroscience Center lab of Ben Philpot, PhD, led this research.
In the ultimate use of telemedicine, UNC School of Medicine’s Stephan Moll, MD, worked with NASA to treat a U.S. astronaut’s blood clot during a mission on the International Space…
The collaboration represents a shared commitment to enhance technology, expand local services and improve access to healthcare.
UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Ian Shih, PhD, used fMRI and a genetic mouse model to study the effects of a neurotransmitter on brain network functional connectivity, a…
The UNC-Chapel Hill lab of Frank Conlon, PhD, and colleagues conducted experiments to show how a non-cardiac protein subunit interacts with three cardiac genes known to be mutated in patients…
James F. Howard Jr., MD, professor in the UNC Department of Neurology, was principal investigator of the ADAPT+ trial for the experimental drug efgartigimod, developed by Belgian pharmaceutical company Argenx.
Kim Boggess, MD, is the co-author of a New England Journal of Medicine paper detailing important maternal and fetal health findings as part of the largest-ever clinical trial on hypertension…
UNC-Chapel Hill scientists led by Camille Ehre, PhD, show how cells packed with SARS-CoV-2 detach from the upper airway and spread deep into lungs where severe COVID can take root….
Covid-19 / Coronavirus, Infectious Diseases, News, Pediatrics And Children's Health, Research
Research led by Mark Shen, PhD, Heather Hazlett, PhD, and Joseph Piven, MD, from UNC-Chapel Hill is the first to demonstrate overgrowth of the amygdala in the first year of…
UNC School of Medicine scientists led by Scott Magness, PhD, sequenced the genes expressed in individual single cells from human digestive tracts to discover new cell-type characteristics and gain insights…
Research led by Donald Pathman, MD, MPH, and Jeffrey Sonis, MD, MPH, published in Public Health Reports shows the trauma to healthcare clinicians in low-income communities.
This research, led by Jean Cook, PhD, and Liu Mei, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, may help explain why certain parts of the genome become highly mutable in…
The record-setting gift supports development of innovative cancer treatments, eradicating health disparities. The center’s inaugural director is Lisa Carey, PhD, the Richardson and Marilyn Jacobs Preyer Distinguished Professor in Breast…
This study, called IMPACT, was co-led by A. Wesley Burks, MD, CEO of UNC Health and dean of the UNC School of Medicine. Edwin Kim, MD, is co-author on the…
The UNC School of Medicine Lab of Kathleen Caron, PhD, discovered that the protein VE-cadherin is a key player in the maintenance and function of lymphatic vessels in the heart,…
Scientists at UNC-Chapel Hill led by Bryan L. Roth, MD, PhD, and colleagues from the University of Southern California and Northeastern University, have created and validated V-SYNTHES – a computational…
