March 6, 2023
El-Behaedi Receives Two National Fellowships to Support Research in Melanoma
UNC School of Medicine’s fourth-year medical student Salma El-Behaedi received two national fellowships to support her research in skin cancer melanoma.
March 6, 2023
UNC School of Medicine’s fourth-year medical student Salma El-Behaedi received two national fellowships to support her research in skin cancer melanoma.
February 28, 2023
David Wohl, MD, and Billy Fischer, MD, published an op-ed in the News & Observer, The Charlotte Observer, and McClatchy subsidiaries on their work trying to gain a better understanding of COVID-19 through a largely observation study of thousands of volunteers in North Carolina.
February 20, 2023
A research collaboration between clinical and preclinical investigators in the Department of Psychiatry at the UNC School of Medicine, led by Leslie Morrow, PhD, found that a drug for post-partum depression works by inhibiting systemic inflammatory pathways.
February 9, 2023
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.
February 9, 2023
Rahima Benhabbour, PhD, MSc, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering, led a successful effort to create an injectable implant that can release effective HIV PrEP medications into the body for six months in non-human primates.
January 26, 2023
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.
January 25, 2023
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.
January 25, 2023
Michelle Itano, PhD, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, is one of ten co-principal investigators who received a two-year grant called "Curated Imaging Science Education for Learners and Trainers."
December 15, 2022
Sriram Machineni, MD, director of the UNC Medical Weight Program, was one of several experts featured in a New England Journal of Medicine video series on the various aspects of obesity, weight gain and loss, and supporting patients through individualized care.
November 3, 2022
Nakisa Sadeghi, a fourth-year medical student at the UNC School of Medicine, published a perspective piece in the Journal of Hospital Medicine about her experience as an interpreter.
August 24, 2022
Sahar Ahmad, Ye Wu, and Pew-Thian Yap, researchers at the UNC Biomedical Research Imaging Center, produced one of the award-winning images from the NIH’s 2022 Show Us Your BRAINs Photo and Video contest.
July 6, 2022
The lab of Ian Shih, PhD, received the top prize from the journal NeuroImage for brain research featuring fMRI and fast-scan cyclic voltammetry. First author was Lindsay Walton, PhD.