Living with diabetes can often mean making a lot of complex decisions to ensure your blood sugar levels stay in a safe range. Navigating the complexity of these choices every day can be both complicated and exhausting. Kyungbok Lee, a post-doctoral researcher at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, is helping adolescents with Type 1 diabetes make decisions about what to eat by developing a model that helps compare options—even without perfect data.

The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to launch the C³ Drug Delivery Predoctoral Training Program—collaborating with NC TraCS, and partners NC State and N.C. A&T, to train PhD students to move drug delivery innovations from concept to clinic to commercialization. The program will support 25 PhD students over five years.

An opioid overdose is an incredibly dangerous moment – and not only in the initial moments of the overdose. Even when someone survives an overdose, they face a high risk of suffering from another overdose in the coming days, weeks, and months. Micha Belden and Chris Shea with the Implementation Science Methods Unit at NC TraCS are currently leading a study on post-overdose response teams, or PORTs, in North Carolina.

Translational science works to make biomedical research—from basic research on genetics and cell biology to clinical trials and public health outreach—more efficient and more aligned with patient needs. In this new interactive StoryMap, we chart how NC TraCS supports scientists at every stage of this process, fueling impactful research and powering the future of next-generation medicine in North Carolina.