Workshop: Advancing Novel Surrogate Endpoints for Rare Disease Drug Development
The Triangle Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science & Innovation (Triangle CERSI) invites you to join FDA, researchers, clinicians, and innovators for a free, one-day virtual workshop open to the public focused on emerging scientific and regulatory pathways for advancing surrogate endpoints in rare disease drug development.
This workshop is being convened in support of the Rare Disease Endpoint Advancement (RDEA) Pilot Program, established under the FDA User Fee Reauthorization Act of 2022 and the Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act of 2022. The RDEA program is intended to support the development of efficacy endpoints for rare disease treatments by fostering dialogue among FDA, researchers, clinicians, industry, patient communities, and other stakeholders.
Triangle CERSI is partnering with the UNC School of Medicine to offer ACCME-based continuing medical education credit.
The Data Janitor (EHR Edition)
Tomas McIntee, PhD, a Research Data Scientist with the TraCS Data Science Lab, talks tips and tricks for dealing with dirty data in the world of electronic health records. From incompleteness and imputation to outlandish outliers and everything in between, what should we do with all this dirt?
Speaker:
Tomas J. McIntee, PhD
Research Data Scientist
NC TraCS Institute
Seminars in the NC TraCS Data Science Lab Seminar Series cover a range of topics related to health care data science, clinical data, data engineering, and working in these areas at UNC-Chapel Hill. These hybrid seminars are usually held monthly on the third Tuesday of each month from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the NC TraCS suite on the 2nd floor of Brinkhous-Bullitt or via Zoom.
Please join us for the 2026 UNC Network for Research Professionals (NRP) Research Conference! This all-day, in-person event will have various presentations, breakout sessions, a poster session, and a panel discussion.
Event Location: Kirkland Auditorium, Koury Oral Health Sciences Building
Learn more about the conference and explore the full agenda at nrp.tracs.unc.edu/research-conference.
Please join the Department of Health Sciences Office of Research & Scholarship for their May research forum featuring Stacey Dusing PT, PhD, FAPTA, Sykes Family Chair in Pediatric Physical Therapy and Professor at the University of Southern California.
The hybrid forum will take place in person (MacNider 321, LUNCH provided) and via Zoom. Please register to attend.
Questions? Contact the Department of Health Sciences Office of Research & Scholarship at
Recruitment materials are often treated as neutral tools, but they actively shape who chooses to participate—and why. In qualitative and decentralized research, where trust and authenticity are critical, poorly aligned design choices can unintentionally attract insincere participants while deterring the very individuals a study aims to reach.
This session explores how recruitment materials function as signals, influencing perceptions of legitimacy, eligibility, and risk. Through real-world case examples and interactive discussion, participants will examine how design elements—such as language, compensation framing, and screening structure—can create vulnerability to misrepresentation. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to align recruitment approaches with study risk tolerance, strengthening both participant authenticity and data integrity.
Presenter:
Sarah Sutter, MPH
Research Project Manager, Recruitment & Retention Program
NC TraCS Institute