Sriram Machineni, MD, director of the UNC Medical Weight Program, was one of several experts featured in a New England Journal of Medicine video series on the various aspects of obesity, weight gain and loss, and supporting patients through individualized care.

Giselle Corbie, MD, Director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research and Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine, has been named the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill.

A new glioblastoma treatment from Northwest Biotherapeutics improved outcomes for many patients in a phase 3 clinical study, according to a study published in JAMA Oncology. Matt Ewend, MD, in the UNC Department of Neurosurgery and at UNC Lineberger, led the trial site at the N.C. Basnight Cancer Hospital.

Keriayn Smith, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Genetics, was selected as one of six inaugural recipients of grants from the Hypothesis Fund to advance early-stage innovative research.

The European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy honored the UNC School of Medicine’s Jude Samulski, PhD, co-founder and chief science officer of AskBio, with its inaugural Founder’s Award.

UNC School of Medicine researchers Sarah Cohen, PhD, and Mohanish Deshmukh, PhD, along with Stanford’s Serena Young, PhD, were selected for second-phase funding for the CZI Neurodegeneration Challenge Network.

Joe Piven, MD, the Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, co-presented an overview of autism research in older populations before the US DHHS Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee.

Samuel McLean, MD, MPH, professor in the UNC Department of Psychiatry, is set to launch a new initiative for the purpose of creating interventions to prevent posttraumatic stress, depression, chronic pain, and other severe consequences of trauma.

Eva Anton, PhD, professor of cell biology and physiology and member of the UNC Neuroscience Center, received an NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award to study the underpinnings of brain malformations and neurodevelopmental disorders.

The $8-million dollar DISENTANGLE initiative, led by Sam McLean, MD, MPH, at the UNC School of Medicine and funded through the U.S. Department of Defense, will leverage the latest data on brain injury biomarkers and clinical observations to prevent and treat severe posttraumatic symptoms.

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation awarded more than $7.9 million in grants to 16 early-career physician scientists, including two from the UNC School of Medicine – Andrea Knittel, MD, PhD and Peyton Thompson, MD.

UNC Lineberger's Chad V. Pecot, MD, published a paper that found inflammatory monocytes, immune cells that build clots to promote wound healing, also make it possible for tumor cells to migrate to other parts of the body.

Chad Pecot, MD, associate professor of medicine and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, will lead the new center dedicated to the investigation of the many roles of RNA in health and disease.

Tag: Faculty

Machineni Featured in NEJM Video Series on Obesity, Weight Management

Corbie Named Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs

Ewend Leads UNC Hospitals Site for Successful National Glioblastoma Clinical Trial

Smith Selected as Hypothesis Fund Seed Grant Recipient

Samulski Receives Inaugural Award for Pioneering Gene Therapy

Cohen, Deshmukh Selected for Second Round of CZI Funding

Piven Presents on Autism in Older Age to Special U.S. DHHS Interagency Committee

McLean Launches PREVAIL to Tackle Traumatic Stress

Anton Receives NIH High Risk-High Reward Grant

UNC-led Initiative Set to Gain Insights to Improve Posttraumatic Outcomes

Knittel, Thompson Receive Clinical Scientist Development Awards

UNC Lineberger Creates RNA Discovery Center