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Chung named one of the most influential women in Health IT

06 October 2016

Recently Arlene Chung, MD, MHA, MMCi, Diplomate of Clinical Informatics, and assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics in the UNC School of Medicine, was named one of the most influential women in Health IT by FierceHealthcare....

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...

Participants Wanted for Probiotics Research Study

06 October 2016

Influence of a Probiotic Supplement on Body Composition and Health in Shift-Working Nursing Staff (i.e. Nurses, Nursing Assistants) Must be a female between 22 and 45 years of age Must have been employed on a shift-working...

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...

Kenan-Flagler’s online MBA@UNC program ranked No. 1 by The Princeton Review

06 October 2016

The Princeton Review has ranked the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School’s MBA@UNC program the No. 1 online MBA program for a second consecutive year. UNC Kenan-Flagler launched the...

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...

NIH awards $150M for research on child health

06 October 2016

NIH awards more than $150 million for research on environmental influences on child health The National Institutes of Health today announced $157 million in awards in fiscal year 2016 to launch a seven-year initiative called...

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...

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Clinical Scholars Program names first cohort

27 September 2016

Clinical Scholars is a national leadership program led by UNC SOM faculty members Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, and Claudia Fernandez, DrPH, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program, which recently named...

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...