Using a custom-built exposure chamber, UNC School of Medicine and EPA scientists tested consumer-grade masks and improvised face coverings to show how effective they can be at protecting individuals from…
Jonathan Schisler, PhD, is co-senior author of a team-science study with NASA and dozens of research universities around the country to determine the driver of cellular damage during space travel.
A feat of basic neuroscience co-led by UNC School of Medicine’s Jose Rodríguez-Romaguera, PhD, and Randall Ung, PhD, the discovery of a set of arousal-related neurons could help scientists develop…
Led by Meghan Rebuli, PhD, and Ilona Jaspers, PhD, UNC School of Medicine, researchers found that vaping electronic cigarettes could impair the body’s normal immune response to viral infections.
Research led by the lab of Ralph Baric, PhD, in collaboration with UNC School of Medicine and University of Wisconsin scientists, shows that a common mutation to the virus that…
This collaboration will help military medical providers prepare to save lives.
Led by Anil Gehi, MD, a team of UNC Health providers used cardiac contractility modulation, an innovative minimally-invasive therapy, to help people with heart failure feel better.
Published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, a paper co-authored by seven leading diabetes experts in Europe and the United Sates, including UNC’s John Buse, MD, PhD, warns against medical…
UNC School of Medicine researchers and collaborators use a population health intervention to prevent an estimated 6,000 heart attacks, strokes, and deaths due to cardiovascular disease at 219 North Carolina…
UNC School of Medicine researchers collaborate on a newly released study that identifies sites in the oral cavity where coronavirus can take hold, emphasizing the importance of wearing a face…
Dirk Dittmer, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology at the UNC School of Medicine, is tracking the virus that causes COVID-19 by sequencing the genome of virus samples collected from…
Published in Nature, research led by Mark Zylka, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, shows how gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9 can restore function in an animal model of the…
Led by Stan Lemon, MD, researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and GSK colleagues discovered that the majority of rhinoviruses need a human protein called STING to infect cells…
UNC Health teamed with community stakeholders to create an effective mobile testing operation for COVID-19 in central North Carolina, and to offer healthcare, consultation, and resources to those most in…
NC State and UNC School of Medicine researchers, co-led by Tom Egan, MD, developed a technique to provide non-invasive assessments of lung conditions.
Researchers at Oxford and UNC-Chapel Hill, led by Andrew Moon, MD, MPH, and Sidney Barritt, MD, found increased mortality rates among COVID-19 patients with advanced cirrhosis and alcohol-related liver disease.
UNC School of Medicine research led by Nilu Goonetilleke, PhD, reveal how HIV-1-specific immune cells can recognize viral particles that have the capacity to rebound following interruptions to antiretroviral therapy….
For the first time, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation named two clinical scholars from the same institution to two different health provider teams in the same year: Crystal Wiley Cené,…
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Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine collaborated with UNC Health and found that 0.8 percent of patients who came to a UNC Health facility for non-COVID-19 related reasons during…
In the first year of the Blue Premier alternative payment program, more than 80 primary care practices achieved top quality performance and significant financial savings for patients.
