November 11, 2020
UNC Health, U.S. Army Establish Trauma Training Partnership
This collaboration will help military medical providers prepare to save lives.
November 11, 2020
This collaboration will help military medical providers prepare to save lives.
November 11, 2020
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.
November 4, 2020
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 inertia that prevents physicians from helping patients with type 2 diabetes and cardiorenal disease.
October 29, 2020
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 clinics.
October 28, 2020
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 covering and physical distancing.
October 21, 2020
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 diagnostic testing. Using next generation sequencing on SARS-CoV-2 will help accurately diagnose the novel coronavirus, identify mutations and track its history.
October 21, 2020
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 neurodevelopmental condition Angelman syndrome.
October 21, 2020
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 and replicate to cause disease.
October 20, 2020
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 need. Results of this project were published in NEJM Catalyst.
October 15, 2020
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.
October 6, 2020
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.
October 6, 2020
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. The findings have implications for new treatment strategies.