January 8, 2025
UNC ‘Breakthrough’ Research on Food Allergy Drug Featured in National Geographic
Drug work one of “7 Medical Breakthroughs that Changed Medicine in 2024.”
Tag: Awards and Recognition
December 18, 2024
Ginty Named 23rd Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize Recipient
Harvard Neuroscientist David D. Ginty, PhD, will receive the Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize for his pivotal discoveries on the sensation of touch and how our body communicates with the brain.
October 23, 2024
UNC School of Medicine to Receive $3-Million Award from ARPA-H’s Sprint for Women’s Health
Led by Kathleen Caron, PhD, UNC School of Medicine researchers earned a Sprint for Women’s Health Award to develop a new therapeutic approach to treating debilitating migraines that affect women.
October 9, 2024
UNC Scientist’s Work Contributes to Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M. Jumper for their groundbreaking work in computational protein design and protein structure prediction. UNC’s Brian Kuhlman made significant contributions to this work while a postdoctoral researcher in the Baker lab.
August 6, 2024
UNC Hospitals, UNC Health Rex and UNC Health Pardee Earn Top 5-Star Hospital Ratings from CMS for Quality of Care and Safety
Only 14 hospitals in North Carolina received five stars. CMS star ratings are a comprehensive way to measure hospital quality and safety.
July 10, 2024
Flores, Phanstiel named HHMI Gilliam Fellows
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded Gilliam Fellowships to 50 graduate students in science – and their advisers – following the largest competition in the program’s history. John Patrick Flores and his adviser Douglas Phanstiel, PhD, associate professor of cell biology and physiology, were selected in the 19th year of the program.
June 11, 2024
Miao Named Editor-in-Chief of Nature Journal
Yinglong Miao, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology and computational medicine, has been named editor-in-chief of npj Drug Discover, part of the Nature portfolio of journals.
May 15, 2024
Four Scholars Named to Physician Scientist Training Program
Brooke Matson, Jeremy Meier, Brittany Raffa, and Shivani Sud will receive support from the UNC School of Medicine Physician Scientists Training Program to cultivate their careers as translational clinical scientists.
May 13, 2024
UNC School of Medicine Names 2023-24 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars
Sarah Linnstaedt, PhD, Benjamin Vincent, MD, and Pengda Liu, PhD, were selected as Yang Family Biomedical Scholars in the eighth installment of this annual School of Medicine award.
April 24, 2024
Franklin Receives 2024 Boka W. Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Service
The Graduate School named Janay Franklin a 2024 recipient of the Boka W. Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Service, one of the Chancellor’s Awards at UNC-Chapel Hill.
March 28, 2024
Four School of Medicine Students Named Schweitzer Fellows
The NC Albert Schweitzer Fellowship selected its class of 29 Fellows for 2024-25, including five from the UNC Adams School of Dentistry, four from the UNC School of Medicine and one from the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.
January 22, 2024
UNC School of Medicine Researchers Awarded Grant for Summer Undergraduate Experience Program
Jonathan Schisler, PhD, Leon Coleman, MD, PhD, and Ben Philpot, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, were awarded a five-year, $675,000 grant to lead a summer undergraduate experience program promoting neuropharmacology and neurobiological disease research to be conducted by students from underrepresented groups.