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Duke/UNC Team Testing New Strategies to Prevent Clotting in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer

01 June 2016

Nigel Mackman, PhD and Rebekah White, MD CTSA collaborative funding award supports mouse-model research People with cancer are at increased risk for developing blood clots as DNA, micro-particles and other cellular debris...

Duke/UNC Collaboration

CAGAT Initiative holds second webinar for community academic grants administration

04 May 2016

UNC's Community-Academic Grants Administration Translation (CAGAT) is an initiative designed to help improve the grants management infrastructure for community-academic partnered research through the collaborative development...

The Power of Blood

23 May 2016

NC TraCS researcher's unique expertise could one day thwart America's top killer Alisa Wolberg A conversation with Alisa Wolberg is not for the faint of heart. That's not to say that the trained biologist's demeanor is...

Duke/UNC Collaboration

UNC Fibroid Study on WRAL

03 May 2016

New UNC study seeks best fibroid treatment for ailing women Health reporter Dr. Allen Mask of WRAL-TV discusses fibroids and the COMPARE-UF registry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and interviews Dr....

Date change for TraCS Pilot Program submissions

16 May 2016

Funding Opportunity Notice: Pilot Program submission due dates HAVE CHANGED The TraCS Pilot program has extended the deadline from June 7 to June 21 for the following funding opportunities: TraCS $5K-$50K...

Carolina joins launch of SPARK, nation’s largest autism research study

26 April 2016

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill today helped launch SPARK, a research initiative designed to become the largest genetic research study for autism ever undertaken in the United States. The historic nationwide...

Giving Blood a Boost

11 May 2016

Ian J. Welsby, MD BS (left) Jay S. Ravel, MD (right)photo: Jon Gardiner Duke/UNC Team use CTSA pilot funding to explore whether ‘rejuvenated’ blood can reduce transfusion frequency for people with sickle cell disease. In...

Duke/UNC Collaboration

Tracking the Spread of HIV's Drug Resistance in NC

20 April 2016

Ann Dennis, MD and Nwora Lance Okeke, MD, MPH photo: Jon Gardiner In the 1990s, a person who became infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) could progress to full-blown AIDS within a few years' time. While...

Duke/UNC Collaboration

New resource helps investigators avoid common pitfalls of community-engaged research

09 May 2016

CHAPEL HILL – The NC Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute has created a new resource for investigators and project managers who want to learn more about the pre-and post-award process associated with federally-funded,...

Duke-UNC Collaboration May Lead to Drug Discovery Boom

12 April 2016

Robert Lefkowitz (left) and Bryan Roth (right). Photo by Duke Photography. Nobel prize winner from Duke connects with colleague at UNC to study cell receptors As health conditions go, allergies, hypertension,...

Duke/UNC Collaboration

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