October 22, 2021
Gene Therapy Shows Early Promise as Angelman Syndrome Treatment
Led by Ben Philpot, PhD, and Matt Judson, PhD, the new therapy was generally well-tolerated and prevented key signs of the condition in animal models.
October 22, 2021
Led by Ben Philpot, PhD, and Matt Judson, PhD, the new therapy was generally well-tolerated and prevented key signs of the condition in animal models.
October 20, 2021
UNC Horizons, led by Hendree Jones, PhD, is featured in this NC Health feature story titled, "Supporting mothers through addiction as two public health crises converge."
October 19, 2021
UNC School of Medicine and Princeton researchers, co-led by Frank Conlon, PhD, and Wei Shi, PhD, conducted a first-of-its-kind analysis to discover differences in how particular proteins in heart cells are expressed in genetically diverse male and female mice during the earliest embryonic stage, well before sex hormones influence cells.
October 18, 2021
Protect yourself and your family online.
October 18, 2021
This new method, created by the UNC School of Medicine labs of Klaus Hahn and Tim Elston, has the potential to super-charge the study of human proteins as they interact and change their conformations in fundamentally important ways in human health and disease.
October 15, 2021
Dr. Winfield was a nationally recognized rheumatology clinician, researcher, thought leader, and founding director of the UNC Thurston Arthritis Research Center.
October 15, 2021
The 2021 award winners are Melissa Mattocks, Deen Gu, David McDonald, Tzu-Wen "Winnie" Wang, Ashalla Freeman, Rodney Coble and Tyler Coble.
October 13, 2021
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation named Justin Wolter, PhD, postdoc in the Neuroscience Research Center, as a recipient of the Young Investigator Award.
October 1, 2021
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill research set the stage to seek emergency authorization of the first oral antiviral drug to treat COVID-19, a pill developed by the pharmaceutical companies Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics. William Fischer, MD, at the UNC School of Medicine led pivotal clinical trials on the drug molnupiravir.
September 29, 2021
UNC School of Medicine’s 54th annual Student Research Day will take place on Friday, November 12th, 2021. Historically, this has been a symposium-style event highlighting the research achievements of UNC medical students, giving them the opportunity to present their work. Due to the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic, the event will be held virtually, with live video sessions. If you are interested in serving as a judge, please submit here: https://unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d5VvRT1BAt5ZouG.
September 29, 2021
In honor of Hispanic Heritage month, WRAL-TV features Michelle Hernandez, MD, professor in the UNC Department of Pediatrics and director of the N.C. Child Health Research Network.
September 28, 2021
UNC School of Medicine, the World Health Organization, and the Ethiopian Public Health Institute conducted a joint study to find that malaria parasites are spreading undetected across the Horn of Africa, posing a major health threat to the region. Lead UNC lead investigator Jonathan Parr, MD, MPH, is senior author of this Nature Microbiology paper.