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UNC holds town hall to discuss scientific review process

21 September 2016

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, The Office of Clinical Trials, The Office of Human Research Ethics presents: Town Hall to Discuss Recent Changes to the Scientific Review Process at UNC Do you have questions...

Wake Forest offers workshop on using primates in research

13 September 2016

Date: November 10, 2016 Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Location: Kimpton Cardinal Hotel, Winston-Salem, NC The Wake Forest Clinical and Translational Science Institute is sponsoring a workshop on November 10, 2016, entitled...

NIH announces new policies for clinical trials

21 September 2016

Over the past few years, the NIH began taking steps to enhance its management and oversight of clinical trials. One recommendation NIH is implementing is the use of clinical trials-specific FOAs. Please review the following...

Latest round of Duke/UNC CTSA Consortium grants announced

09 September 2016

2017 Duke/UNC CTSA Consortium Collaborative Translational Research (T1/T2) Pilot Grant Application Deadline: Oct 21, 2016 Faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke are encouraged to apply for the 2017 Duke-UNC CTSA Consortium Collaborative...

NIH awards more than $150 million for research on environmental influences on child health

21 September 2016

ECHO program to investigate exposures from conception through early childhood. The National Institutes of Health today announced $157 million in awards in fiscal year 2016 to launch a seven-year initiative called Environmental...

Funding Opportunity: 2017 Duke/UNC Collaborative

09 September 2016

Spirit of innovation

20 September 2016

An employee works in EpiCypher's lab in Durham. EpiCypher develops and sells recombinant nucleosomes — an industry first — and other products for epigenetics and chromatin research. Of the more than 800 startups created...

NIH to offer new class in clinical research

09 September 2016

Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (IPPCR) NIH hopes to open online registration by Friday, September 9th and will share more details once registration is open. The course directors are currently...

UNC researchers identify how hepatitis A virus causes liver injury

20 September 2016

Jason Whitmire, PhD, and Stanley Lemon, MD A new report in the journal Science describes how the virus can jump species, including to mice – a finding that has major implications for researching the disease and host immune...

UNC and Minnesota researchers earn NIH grant to explore infant brain development

09 September 2016

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and the University of Minnesota (UMN) have been awarded a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to launch the Baby Connectome...