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New Opportunity for fully funded Leadership Training

24 March 2016

New Opportunity for fully funded Leadership Training to Support Achieving a Culture of Health in the US from RWJF The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is seeking applications for participants in four new fully funded leadership...

UNC Women in STEM timeline features TraCS’ researchers

10 March 2016

The UNC Office of Research Communications has created a timeline of UNC Women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). From the first woman admitted to the School of Medicine, to the researcher who highlighted...

Collaborative Grants Encourage UNC and Duke Researchers to Leave Rivalry on the Court

23 March 2016

Duke's Dr. Robert Lefkowitz (left) and UNC's Dr. Bryan Roth (right) won't let basketball rivalries interfere with their latest collaboration, funded jointly by the Clinical and Translational Science Awards at Duke and UNC....

HIV Targets Tissue Macrophages

08 March 2016

Investigators in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have clearly demonstrated that HIV infects and reproduces in macrophages, large white blood cells found in the liver,...

NC TraCS offers new $2K voucher to support stakeholder engagement

23 March 2016

The engagement of patients and other healthcare stakeholders is a critical part of translational research, and yet many scientists and clinicians find it difficult to interact with the world outside the ivory tower. Thankfully,...

Citing the CTSA Grant

08 March 2016

NC TraCS appreciates when you recognize our contribution to your work by citing the CTSA grant number in your publications and other scholarly work. We noticed while compiling the list of publications for our NIH annual progress...

The Carolina Data Warehouse for Health (CDW-H) team is going on the road!

22 March 2016

The NC TraCS Carolina Data Warehouse for Health (CDW-H) team is preparing to go on the road! Our brand NEW CDW-H Roadshow can come to you. The roadshow will provide education about the CDW-H to all schools and departments...

Biomedical engineer Zhen Gu receives prestigious Sloan Fellowship

08 March 2016

Zhen Gu, PhD, assistant professor in the UNC/NC State joint department of biomedical engineering, has been named a 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry. The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded to 126 American...

'Smart Cell Patch' delivers insulin without pain

15 March 2016

A scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image of the microneedle-array patch. For decades, researchers have tried to duplicate the function of beta cells, the tiny insulin-producing entities that don’t work properly...

Pediatric medication safety is focus of Chapel Hill PharmSci 2016 Conference

08 March 2016

Research into the safety of pediatric medications is the focus of Chapel Hill PharmSci 2016 hosted by the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy May 12-13 and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Cecil...