This T1/T2 pilot program is designed to encourage and facilitate novel clinical and translational research that applies or accelerates discovery into testing in clinical or population settings. Cross-disciplinary basic...
Duke/UNC Collaboration
When people think about UNC and Duke, they often think about basketball rivalries, win-loss records, and March Madness. Collaboration is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. But outside athletics, these two...
Christoph Hornik, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Duke School of Medicine (left), Daniel Gonzalez, PharmD, PhD, Assistant Professor, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy (right)
The North Carolina Translational and Clinical...
Children are not simply little adults. Not only do they not behave like adults, but their bodies are vastly different, with more bones, thinner skin, and narrower airways. And because of their faster metabolisms and...
Given sufficient time, many forms of cardiovascular disease turn into heart failure, our nation’s number one killer. The disease affects six million Americans and costs the health care system a whopping $39 billion a...
When the Duke’s men’s basketball team travels to the Dean E. Smith Center on Saturday evening, it will be walking into a raucous, hostile arena created by decades of rivalry.
But off the court and outside the Dean Dome,...
The key to physical and mental wellbeing could lie in your gut. The cells that line your digestive tract – all thirty feet of it – do more than just help your body digest food and get rid of waste. They stimulate your...
Charles Gersbach, PhD & Aravind Asokan, PhD
Anyone who has been sickened by the flu or a bout of food poisoning knows that viruses and bacteria can be powerful adversaries. But in recent decades, they have also...
Duke-UNC CTSA Collaborative Pilot Grants now looking for projects that fall anywhere on the spectrum of translational research, from laboratory bench to population health.
The Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill CTSA programs are...
Charles Gersbach, PhD & Aravind Asokan, PhD
A team of investigators supported in part by a $50,000 CTSA-supported Duke/UNC Collaborative Pilot Program has published results of their research into using CRISPR to...
Robert Lefkowitz (left) and Bryan Roth (right). Photo by Duke Photography.
Nobel prize winner from Duke connects with colleague at UNC to study cell receptors
As health conditions go, allergies,...
Ann Dennis, MD and Nwora Lance Okeke, MD, MPH photo: Jon Gardiner
In the 1990s, a person who became infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) could progress to full-blown AIDS within a few years' time....
Ian J. Welsby, MD BS (left) Jay S. Ravel, MD (right)photo: Jon Gardiner
Duke/UNC Team use CTSA pilot funding to explore whether ‘rejuvenated’ blood can reduce transfusion frequency for people with sickle cell...
NC TraCS researcher's unique expertise could one day thwart America's top killer
Alisa Wolberg
A conversation with Alisa Wolberg is not for the faint of heart. That's not to say that the trained biologist's demeanor...
Nigel Mackman, PhD and Rebekah White, MD
CTSA collaborative funding award supports mouse-model research
People with cancer are at increased risk for developing blood clots as DNA, micro-particles and other cellular...
Researchers from Duke and UNC team up to find an answer, with funding from the two institutions' NIH Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA).
For hundreds of millions of people around the world with chronic...
"Did you plan this pregnancy?" the academic mentor demanded of his post-doctoral researcher. "What about our project timeline?" His mentee blinked in surprise. She'd just announced exciting news, but the reaction she...
UNC and Duke researchers receive CTSA Consortium Collaborative Pilot Award to develop a new way to study cancer
For doctors and patients, the fight against cancer can be a lot like an exceedingly tricky version of the...
Neeta L. Vora, MD
Neeta Vora, MD, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the division of maternal-fetal medicine,...