The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation named Justin Wolter, PhD, postdoc in the Neuroscience Research Center, as a recipient of the Young Investigator Award.

Principal investigators James Hagood, MD, and Richard Boucher, MD, at the UNC School of Medicine will lead a multinational, $3.5-million project funded through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to map crucial cellular roles in human health and disease.

Greg Wang, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics, has received the 2022 ASBMB Young Investigator Award.

Whether it’s driving through a snowstorm to rescue a stranded nurse visiting from Malawi or supporting world-class infectious diseases faculty, 2021 Massey Award winner Kathy James, administrative support supervisor in the UNC School of Medicine, is all about helping.

David Margolis, MD, Director of the UNC HIV Cure Center

The National Institutes of Health will award $53 million annually to 10 research organizations over the next five years to continue working toward curative therapies for HIV. The Collaboratory of AIDS Researchers for Eradication (CARE), led at the UNC HIV Cure Center by David Margolis, MD, is one of two programs to have received funds for all three five-year grant cycles since 2011.

The Committee for the Distinguished Medical Alumni Awards is seeking nominations. All submissions are due by October 15, 2021.

The UNC School of Medicine Student Government presented the Whitehead Lecture by Ana Felix and awards to colleagues during a virtual celebration August 4. If you missed it, you can watch a recording.

Kavita Shah Arora, MD, division director of general obstetrics and gynecology, was selected as a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics by the United States National Academy of Medicine.

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has selected Ross Boyce, MD, as a recipient of a 2021 Clinical Scientist Development Award for his research proposal titled, “Getting malaria off the back of women and children in western Uganda.”

The Alliance for Black Doulas for Black Mamas (ABDBM) graduated its first class of Black Doulas on July 10th. Founded by UNC Family Medicine’s Venus Standard, MSN, CNM, FACNM, LCCE, ABDBM offers an enhanced Doula training program whose goal is to increase access of Doula training to Black women, while improving Black women’s birth outcomes by expanding their access to social, emotional, and educational support from professionally trained Black Doulas.

David Peden, MD, past president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, will serve as the academy’s first editor-in-chief of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global.

Future Science Group named Michelle Itano, PhD, as the new Editor-in-Chief for BioTechniques, the International Journal of Life Science Methods.

Tag: Awards and Recognition

Wolter Earns Young Investigator Award

Carolina Researchers Lead CZI Collaborative on Childhood Diseases

Wang Receives ASBMB Young Investigator Award

Dedicated to helping

UNC HIV Cure Center Awarded $26.2 million over the next 5 Years

Call for Nominations for the 2022 Distinguished Medical Alumni Awards

Watch the 2021 Whitehead Lecture and Awards Celebration

Arora Named National Academy of Medicine Fellow

Boyce Awarded Doris Duke Funding for Malaria Study in Uganda

Alliance for Black Doulas for Black Mamas Graduates First Class of Black Doulas

Peden Named Inaugural Editor-in-Chief of New AAAAI journal

Itano Named Editor-in-Chief of BioTechniques