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UNC-Chapel Hill Selected as Center for New Leadership Initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

04 November 2015

UNC-Chapel Hill selected to lead an unprecedented national push to equip clinicians with leadership, team-building and cultural competence skills to improve the health status of Americans. The University of North Carolina...

NC TraCS Service Helps CTSA Partner Develop Grant Proposals for Biomedical Research

13 October 2015

Shrinking budgets have caused scientists to scramble harder than ever to secure funding for their research. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the main source of funding for biomedical research in the United States, has...

Two UNC Startups Land $100K in Carolina KickStart Awards

23 October 2015

CHAPEL HILL – Dualogics LLC and Joe Startup Technologies have received a total of $100,000 in commercialization awards from Carolina KickStart, a joint program of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS)...

Carolina to celebrate University Day Oct. 12

09 October 2015

Chancellor Carol L. Folt will deliver a keynote address on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s rich history as the nation’s first public university and its bright future as a top, global, public research institution...

World Health Organization names Carolina lead partner in global effort to save millions of lives

16 October 2015

The United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) has named the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as its academic partner to help coordinate research needed for implementation of a bold new strategy aimed at saving...

Why are some of us early birds or night owls?

08 October 2015

Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD Dr. Aziz Sancar is a Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine, as well as a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Turkish Academy of Sciences....

NC researchers awarded $5.3 million to develop novel gut-on-a-chip technology

16 October 2015

CHAPEL HILL, NC – A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NC State University has received a $5.3 million, five-year Transformative Research (R01) Award from the National Institutes of...

UNC School of Medicine researcher among 3 scientists to win Nobel Prize in chemistry

07 October 2015

Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics Sancar’s team mapped DNA repair that protects genes against cancer CHAPEL HILL, NC – Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor...

BRAIN Initiative Human Research Opportunities

13 October 2015

The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative is part of a Presidential focus aimed at revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain. By accelerating the development and application...

NCATS announces new funding for 18 CTSA Program hubs

02 October 2015

Turning scientific discoveries into clinical advances often takes too long. To help address challenges and get more treatments to more patients more quickly, NCATS has announced new funding for 18 Clinical and Translational...