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.
May 7, 2024
Juliane Nguyen, PhD, professor and vice chair of pharmacoengineering and molecular pharmaceuticals at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, and Janelle Arthur, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the UNC School of Medicine, have engineered a probiotic yeast to treat inflammatory bowel disease in animals.
April 24, 2024
Published in the Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology journal, a study led by Anne Peery, MD, and Walker Redd, MD in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, shows that the prevalence of colorectal cancer is low in most patients with diverticulitis. However, patients with complicated diverticulitis are the exception.
April 17, 2024
New research led by Qingyun Liu, PhD, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Genetics, has uncovered a genetic feature known as "transcriptional plasticity," which plays a pivotal role in governing the transcriptional response of Mycobacteria to stressful conditions.
April 10, 2024
A new study in the lab of Bryan Roth, MD, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, helps us better understand how we perceive bitter taste on a chemical level. The findings may lead to the development of drugs that targeting taste receptors.
April 5, 2024
John P. Vavalle, MD, MHS, FACC, and Matthew A. Cavender, MD, MPH, FACC, interventional cardiologists and their collaborative team in the Structural Heart Disease Program at UNC, have performed their first transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement in the clinical setting, a revolutionary treatment for patients living with a common type of heart valve disease.
April 5, 2024
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was one of four academic medical centers on the study, which shows that an intervention program developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics can dramatically reduce injuries in young children.
April 2, 2024
Perinatal mental illness is a leading cause of death during pregnancy and the first postpartum year in the U.S. Alison Stuebe, MD, MSc, professor of maternal fetal medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the UNC School of Medicine, authored a study with colleagues on how a holistic approach comprising seven domains can foster conditions for women and birthing people to thrive.
March 20, 2024
A new study, led by Ana T. Nogueira, PhD, Rebekah Layton, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine and collaborators from the NIH Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (NIH BEST) consortium, examined career confidence in graduate and postdoctoral trainees and explored how to better support international trainees across a diverse array of career paths.
March 18, 2024
A landmark study, led by Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD, professor of neurology and associate director of UNC’s Biomedical Research Imaging Center, could alter how researchers interpret results from functional magnetic resonance imaging.
March 15, 2024
New research by the lab of Jessica Thaxton, PhD, MsCR, in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology at the UNC School of Medicine and colleagues in the Immunotherapy Group at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, has unveiled new clues behind T-cell metabolism that could enhance immunotherapies that rely on T cells to fight cancer.
March 12, 2024
Publishing their work in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vibhor Krishna, MD, at the UNC School of Medicine, and colleagues discovered that specific neurons in the brain are actively involved in processing cardiac and respiratory signals.