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Pilot Grant Awards Roundup

01 June 2010

The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute is pleased to announce awardees of the second cycle of TraCS $5K-$50K grants for clinical and translational research projects. 23 applications were...

What About Our Daughters?

27 May 2010

What About Our Daughters? Women's health begins in childhood The term “women’s health” implies a separation between what a female does during adulthood to stay healthy from what she did – or had done for her – as a child....

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27 May 2010

Right-sized Medicine

27 May 2010

Right-sized Medicine IPIT celebrates five years with scientific symposium DNA is often described as the genetic blueprint of life. Within the 3 billion A’s, T’s, C’s and G’s of the human genome lie clear specifications on...

Passion, Persistence and Serendipity

27 May 2010

Serendipity and science often go together. Examples abound of fortuitous accidents in the lab or “failures” like the adhesive that spawned the success of 3M’s Post-It Notes. Here’s another. UNC-Chapel Hill’s Perinatal Psychiatry...

With a Laser Focus on Diabetes Questions

27 May 2010

With a Laser Focus on Diabetes Questions As someone whose life work is about studying a disease related to how people’s bodies convert what they eat into energy, Beth Mayer-Davis operates at peak efficiency herself. She has...

Apps as Tools for Managing Health

27 May 2010

Apps as Tools for Managing Health Whether it’s counting calories, tracking training runs or managing a chronic disease, to use a tired phrase, “There’s an app for that.” Now more than ever people are using applications for...

UNC spinoff receives $3 million Small Business Innovation Research grant

27 May 2010

UNC spin-off receives $3 million Small Business Innovation Research grant G-Zero Therapeutics, an RTP company started in 2008 based on technologies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been awarded a $3...

Leading from the Community

27 May 2010

Leading from the Community Al Richmond has won a seat at the table. Richmond will take office as one of three co-chairs of the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Key Function Committee (KFC) on Community...

Pediatric Research Day Focuses on Team Science

27 May 2010

Pediatric Research Day Focuses on Team Science “Team Science” was the theme of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s 2011 Pediatric Research Day, September 8. The morning-long program featured Bonnie Ramsey, M.D.,...