August 6, 2024
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
November 8, 2023
During University Research Week, the labs of Dirk Dittmer, PhD, Jack Griffith, PhD, and Joshua Strauss, PhD, won the Art-in-Science Competition held by the UNC School of Medicine Office of Research.
September 25, 2023
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.
August 16, 2023
A $100,000 grant from the Neurocritical Care Foundation has been awarded to David Y. Hwang MD, FAAN, FCCM, FNCS, division chief of neurocritical care in the Department of Neurology at the UNC School of Medicine, and colleagues to research an intervention to support family caregivers of patients surviving ICU admission for coma.
August 2, 2023
UNC School of Medicine graduate students Oscar Arroyo from Daniel McKay's lab and Aleah Bailey from Ilona Jasper's lab, were among 50 students across the United States named as Gilliam Fellows by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.