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Clinical Scholars Program call for applications begins January 4

23 December 2016

Are you a health care professional working with kids, adults or families? Motivated to improve the health of those most vulnerable in your community? Desire to further develop your leadership skills? Consider applying...

Office of Minority Health announces new resource

19 December 2016

The Office of Minority Health has announced the release of a new resource to aid researchers: The Compendium of Publicly Available Datasets and Other Data-Related Resources. This is a free resource of publicly available...

Burks featured in New York Times Magazine

23 December 2016

The Dec. 18 issue of the New York Times Magazine featured an article on efforts to engineer a less allergenic peanut. The work of Wesley Burks, MD, Executive Dean, UNC School of Medicine and Executive Director, UNC Food Allergy...

African-Americans often say no to clinical trials

14 December 2016

African-Americans often say no to clinical trials. Our reporter asked her mom 'Why?' All the big-name medicines you know about are tested for safety and effectiveness before they reach the pharmacy shelf. And before that —...

NCATS Celebrates Five Years of Advancing Translational Sciences

23 December 2016

In December 2016, NCATS celebrates its fifth anniversary. The Center was officially established on Dec. 23, 2011, to transform the translational science process so that new treatments and cures for disease can be delivered...

National Communication Association honors Noar

14 December 2016

Seth Noar, PhD, earns Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award for contributions to the field of health communication. UNC Lineberger's Seth Noar, PhD, presented with the Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award...

Francis Collins on Obama, dealing with Congress, and his one regret

22 December 2016

Francis Collins in his office at the National Institutes of Health. Jeffery DelViscio/STAT BETHESDA, Md. — At what was supposed to be the end of his tenure atop the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins is still...

Carolina graduate named winner of 2017 TED prize

13 December 2016

Dr. Raj Panjabi — who graduated with Bachelor’s degrees in biochemistry and sociology from Carolina and is also a UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine graduate — has won the 2017 TED Prize, awarded annually to a leader...

UNC, Duke researchers unite around mission of preventing virus-induced cancers

21 December 2016

Nearly one in six cancers diagnosed worldwide are attributable to a viral or bacterial infection. Galvanized by that statistic, researchers and clinicians attended the 2016 UNC-Duke Viral Oncology & AIDS Malignancy Symposium...

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kosorok elected AAAS fellow

13 December 2016

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kosorok elected AAAS fellowMichael R. Kosorok, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill biostatics professor, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s...