Susanna Stroik, PhD, and Dale Ramsden, PhD, in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine, have learned more about an enzyme found to be overly expressed in patients with hereditary breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and prostate cancer.

Margaret Kasaro, MMed OBGYN, and others at the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have received a ~$3-million award from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to improve access to portable ultrasounds in routine antenatal care in Zambia.

UNC School of Medicine researchers Angela Wahl, PhD, Balfour Sartor MD, J. Victor Garcia, PhD, and colleagues created a germ-free mouse model to evaluate the role of the microbiome in the infection, replication, and pathogenesis of HIV and Epstein-Barr virus, the virus that can cause mononucleosis and other serious diseases.

UNC School of Medicine researchers Christopher Sayed, MD, Yun Li, PhD, and Karen Mohlke, PhD, discovered the genomic locations that contribute to the genetic risk of a chronic skin condition.

Rebekah Layton, PhD, and LaKeya Hardy, PhD, in the UNC School of Medicine’s Office of Graduate Education, were co-authors on the article, which highlighted the emerging field of biomedical graduate student and postdoctoral education and training research.

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.

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Scientists Piece Together DNA Repair Pathway Implicated in Breast, Ovarian, and Prostate Cancers

Researchers Awarded Helmsley Charitable Trust Grant to Implement Portable Ultrasound in Zambia

Gut Microbiome Can Increase Risk, Severity of HIV, EBV Disease

Researchers Discover Genetic Locations for Increased Risk of Hidradenitis Suppurativa

A New, Growing Field of Research: Biomedical Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Education and Training Research

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