The study, called EPITOPE, led by senior author A. Wesley Burks, MD, CEO of UNC Health and dean of the UNC School of Medicine, and contributing author Edwin Kim, MD, MS, associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at the UNC School of Medicine, shows superior results in desensitizing children to peanuts. Results were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

It's a big step forward in using extracellular vesicles (EVs) as a diagnostic tool. Lead study author, J. Nathaniel Diehl, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, led research showing how a new protocol in handling extracellular vesicles can improve significant diagnostic and therapeutic potential in disease development.

The outbreak of Covid-19 presented many dangers for children, and a new study suggests increased illicit substance ingestions were among them. Lead study author Brittany Raffa, MD, clinical instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine, talks with CNN Health about the overall stress and parental substance use that contributed to the increase.

Dominique Higgins, MD, PhD, led research into how a specialized diet can induce a new type of programmed cell death to help kill brain tumor cells.

Several UNC School of Medicine faculty members were a part of three interdisciplinary research projects awarded $25,000 pilot grants through the UNC Autism Research Center.

Thirty-three students at UNC-Chapel Hill have received prestigious awards from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program for their research in STEM-related fields. UNC SOM recipients are Glory Dan-Dukor, McKenzie Grundy, Nichole Margaret Hondrogiannis, Dhuvarakesh Karthikeyan, and Rachel Sharp.

Leah Ranney, PhD, MA, associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, and Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, professor and director of Departmental Advancement at the UNC Department of Family Medicine, led a first-in-kind study showing how tobacco warnings can improve considerably to follow proposed WHO FCTC guidelines.

NIH-supported studies, including one from UNC School of Medicine’s Emily Pfaff, PhD, co-first author of the study, Coding long COVID: characterizing a new disease through an ICD-10 lens, show variations in long COVID symptoms and diagnostic experiences among different racial and ethnic groups.

Researchers from the UNC School of Medicine, led by Ian Shih, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Neurology and Associate Director of the Biomedical Research Imaging Center, revealed the role of the insular cortex in controlling the Default Mode Brain Network.

A UAB-UNC School of Medicine collaboration found that a single oral dose of the common antibiotic azithromycin reduced the risk of maternal sepsis or death by 33 percent in women who delivered vaginally. UNC School of Medicine study leads were Melissa Bauserman, MD, MPH, Carl Bose, MD, and Jackie Patterson, MD, MPH.

Led by Pew-Thian Yap, PhD, researchers at the UNC School of Medicine created monthly infant brain atlases to help researchers analyze the developing brain to investigate neurological disorders and other conditions.

Wesley Legant, PhD, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Pharmacology and the UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, received a grant called "Observing Molecules in Context with 4Pi Lattice Light Sheet Nanoscopy" as part of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's (CZI) Dynamic Imaging projects.

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12 Months of Treatment with EPIT Superior to Placebo in Desensitizing Children to Peanuts

Maximizing Extracellular Vesicles: Diehl Authors Protocol on Isolation and Quantification to Optimize Patient Care

Raffa Talks With CNN Health About the Increase in Kids Treated for Illicit Substance Ingestion

Researchers Leverage Cell Self-Destruction to Treat Brain Tumors

Autism Research Center Awards $25K Pilot Grants to Three Interdisciplinary Research Projects

Five UNC School of Medicine Students Among Recipients of Prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Reducing the Appeal of Smoking: Study Confirms Tobacco Warnings on Packages Need Improvement

NIH RECOVER Research Identifies Potential long COVID Disparities

Novel Optical and fMRI Platform Identifies Brain Regions that Control Large-scale Brain Network

Single Dose of Azithromycin Reduces Maternal Sepsis or Death

Researchers Unveil New Collection of Human Brain Atlases that Charts the Early Developing Brain in Fine Detail

Wesley Legant, PhD Receives CZI Grant for Team Project on Lattice Light Sheet Nanoscopy