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It’s official: The NIH budget is getting an extra $2 billion

19 December 2015

Capitol Building(Alex Brandon/AP) WASHINGTON — Congress easily approved a federal spending bill Friday with the biggest funding increase for the National Institutes of Health in 12 years — the final hurdle that had to be...

Liquid Metal 'Nano-Terminators' Target Cancer Cells

09 December 2015

The new cancer drug delivery system improved efficacy of standard chemotherapy for ovarian cancer in mice with limited toxicity. Nano terminators (courtesy of Zhen Gu, PhD) RALEIGH, NC – Researchers at North Carolina...

How a crash course in public health could lead to a big boost in NIH funding

16 December 2015

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), chairman of a House subcommittee on labor, health, and human services, in his office on Capitol Hill. (Drew Angerer for STAT) WASHINGTON — A year ago, when Tom Cole was announced as the new chairman...

UNC med student wins NCAFP competition

09 December 2015

Alexa Waters at the NCAFP Alexa Waters, a medical student at UNC-Chapel Hill and a Primary Care and Population Health (PCPH) Scholar, has been working with the North Carolina Network Consortium (NCNC) on the Monitor Trial. Her...

Congress ready to give NIH its biggest increase in 12 years

16 December 2015

Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD(Charles Dharapak/AP) WASHINGTON — The National Institutes of Health will get a $2 billion funding increase in the federal spending bill released early Wednesday, a big boost that could turn around...

The NIH director on his future, a favorite book, and the time he disobeyed his mom

01 December 2015

Eight years ago, questions swirled around Dr. Francis Collins — a geneticist whose nomination as director of the National Institutes of Health left many wondering how he would lead and how his abiding religious faith might...

Connecting science with business

15 December 2015

The first members of a new graduate program at UNC-Chapel Hill will walk across the stage and into their careers on Dec. 13 with a carefully crafted skill set that balances science and business. The Professional Science...

Team Science for Turner Syndrome

24 November 2015

With seed money from the NC TraCS Institute at UNC and a Translational Team Science Award from the UNC School of Medicine, UNC collaborators uncovered an epigenetic mechanism that could be the cause of painful chronic ear infections...

Faculty Engaged Scholar Cheryl Giscombe is dedicated to serving

15 December 2015

Dr. Cheryl Giscombe Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholar Dr. Cheryl Giscombe, an assistant professor in the School of Nursing, is undertaking research to combat inequities in the healthcare system. “I am motivated by my desire...

K12 Program application dates announced

18 November 2015

BIRCWH K12 Program Applications due: Jan 6, 2016 - 8:30 AM Oncology K12 Program Applications due: Jan 6, 2016 - 8:30 AM