The UNC Autism Research Center awarded two Kelley Altman Greer Family Autism Research Fund Pilot Awards to four UNC-Chapel Hill researchers, including cell biology researcher Matthew Judson, PhD, and biomedical engineering researcher Phillip Durham, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine. The goal of this funding is to stimulate multidisciplinary collaborations in autism research among UNC faculty and incentivize researchers to generate pilot data for use in grants to the NIH and other external agencies.

Michelle Floris-Moore, MD, MS, will deliver the lecture in honor of Adaora A. Adimora, MD, MPH on June 20.

UNC Addiction Medicine Program and CORE NC presented on "Low Threshold MOUD: Partnering with Community to Expand Access" during the Morning Plenary at the 2024 Addiction Medicine Conference and shared new video on the Atlas Mobile Clinic community-campus partnership in Robeson County.

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.

One of the main priorities of the Mental Health Equity and Inclusion Program is to enlarge the number of qualified students interested in pursuing careers in psychiatry. As an intentional effort to accomplish this goal, the program engaged with medical students at a national conference interested in learning more about residency training at UNC, future career options in psychiatry, the Triangle as a place to live, and how they may become more engaged in the pursuit of mental health equity.

The Kenan Scholarship provides support to students from rural backgrounds in North Carolina. Two recent Kenan Scholars share a passion for rural healthcare and are returning to their home communities to serve in high need positions.

An interdisciplinary team of UNC-Chapel Hill researchers from computational medicine, genetics, biostatistics, and surgery investigated how cell cycle flexibility allows tumor cells to escape the effect of anti-cancer drugs that target cell division. UNC Lineberger members Jeremy Purvis, PhD, professor of genetics, and Phillip Spanheimer, MD, assistant professor of surgery, led this study.

Assistant Professor of Family Medicine Jesus Ruiz, MD, published an article in Annals of Family Medicine addressing the community impact of UNC Chatham Hospital’s Maternity Care Center, titled “Closing the Gap: How a Community Effort Can Improve Rural Maternity Care.”

Listing of recent competitive grant awards to SOM faculty.

UNC-Chapel Hill was recently named a National HIV Residency Pathway Consortium Site and awarded a year-long, $68,000 grant to support its efforts in training family medicine and internal medicine residents in caring for people with HIV. UNC’s site Investigators, Rick Moore, MD, and Louise Rambo King, MD, have a storied history of caring for patients with HIV.

UNC School of Medicine students completed a half marathon in Durham in early December and donated their race medals to pediatric patients at the UNC Hospitals Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Clinic. The students are part of a new student organization, Medals4Mettle.

Nailah Adams, MD, recently served as the head team physician for USA Track & Field for their 2023 Pan American Games contingent in Santiago, Chile. Adams previously was the official team physician for Trinidad and Tobago at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and is the director of the UNC Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship.

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Judson, Durham Earn Autism Research Center Pilot Awards

Floris-Moore to Deliver Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture

UNC Addiction Medicine Program and CORE Community Partners Present at 2024 Addiction Medicine Conference

Researchers Unveil a Hidden Trait in Mycobacterium Genomes Governing Stress Adaptation

The Mental Health Equity and Inclusion Program Engages with Medical Students at the Annual Medical Education Conference in New Orleans

Returning to Their Roots: Kenan Scholars Serving in Rural Communities

The Path of Escape: How Breast Tumor Cells Avoid Common Cancer Therapy

Ruiz Highlights Community Efforts at UNC Chatham Hospital in Improving Rural Maternity Care

Latest Grant Awards to SOM Faculty

UNC-Chapel Hill Named National HIV Residency Pathway Consortium Site

Students Donate Race Medals to Pediatric Patients

Adams Served USA Track & Field as Head Team Physician at Pan American Games