The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce awardees for the 24th cycle of the TraCS $5K-$50K matched pilot grants. In total, 33 applications were received and 8 were chosen for funding. Awardees include investigators from UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Gillings...

In case you missed it, the Special CTSA Program Webinar, "Topic Update on Status of the NCATS National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)," on May 8, is now available for viewing. Watch the meeting recording at clic-ctsa.org.

The COVID-19 pandemic raises many difficult questions for clinicians, researchers and informaticians. Which drugs are the most viable candidates for a given patient? How can we efficiently and effectively assemble the right cohort for a trial? What social determinants impact course and outcome? How...

UNC-Chapel Hill is developing a plan to reopen the university's research operations in June and July, and to have students back on campus in August. Dear Carolina Community, Students, congratulations on finishing exams. To our seniors, be on the lookout for special messages as we recognize your...

Congratulations to Shahzad K Ali, MD, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, and Robert K McClure, MD, Associate Professor, Psychiatry, on being awarded the 2020 Innovation Pilot Award from the UNC Center for Health Innovation. Their study is entitled "Intermittent Theta Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation...

The Trial Innovation Centers (TICs) and Recruitment Innovation Center (RIC) remain operational during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Patients still need access to clinical trials and studies that may benefit them. Helping researchers plan these future trials is a Trial Innovation Network (TIN) priority....

This bimonthly newsletter from the Community and Stakeholder Engagement (CaSE) Program at TraCS provides news, resources, and opportunities related to community engaged research for interested community partners and research stakeholders. This special COVID-19 newsletter discusses how the pandemic...

As part of AMIA's ongoing COVID-19 Webinar Series, they will take a look at how the Clinical Research Informatics community is contributing to better understanding the clinical nature of the coronavirus. Members of the Accrual to Clinical Trials (ACT) network will present an overview of the existing...

Biomedical engineers at Carolina and NC State respond to COVID-19 by teaming to speed the development of an emergency ventilator Biomedical engineering student Kathlyne Bautista always knew that her coursework and training would set her on a path to make a life-changing difference for people. But...

NIH Updates Data Mining The NIH COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) of scholarly literature about COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and the Coronavirus group is open and available for text data mining tool development. Target Audience: US artificial intelligence experts are called on to use this...