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Clinical and Translational Research Center Open House a Success

02 October 2015

UNC's Clinical & Translational Research Center (CTRC) moved into its new home located on the 1st floor of the Burnett-Womack building on Wednesday, September 30. left to right: Brian Goldstein, MD, MBA, John Buse, MD,...

UNC joins research network focused on improving healthcare throughout the Southeast

14 September 2015

CHAPEL HILL – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of multiple new sites to join the Mid-South Clinical Data Research Network (CDRN), a collaborative partnership that is harnessing data from electronic health...

Collaboration to Improve Blood Pressure in the U.S. Black Belt

30 September 2015

UNC Part of Collaborative Receiving Large Award to Reduce Health Disparities in Rural South Researchers from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, in...

Serving up Food for All

11 September 2015

As far as steering committee co-chairs Marcie Cohen Ferris and Alice Ammerman are concerned, Carolina’s food theme is organic to the campus. “We don’t see this as something we are doing to the campus,” Ammerman said. “It’s...

Are you a Research Administrator?

25 September 2015

Sep 25, 2015 Today May Be Your Day Let’s take a little quiz… 1. When you hear the term “Uniform Guidance” do you immediately think about the consolidation of OMB circulars and not how many...

NC TraCS KL2 Scholar named Jefferson-Pilot Fellow by UNC School of Medicine

09 September 2015

Timothy Platts-Mills, MD While searching for the purpose of rare plants in a remote South Pacific village, Timothy Platts-Mills, MD, took up the cause of medicine. Now, he’s training the next generation of ED doctors at...

New feature makes it easier for UNC patients to participate in clinical research

16 September 2015

Thanks to a new feature, UNC patients can now use their online health management tool "My UNC Chart," the patient portal connected to UNC’s electronic medical record Epic@UNC, to help researchers find new and better ways to...

Falk receives funding to extend kidney disease project

08 September 2015

Dr. Ron Falk and UNC mascot, Ramses This award allows a multidisciplinary team led by Ronald Falk, MD, to continue its research of glomerulonephritis and vasculitis caused by anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA),...

UNC Researchers Awarded $11.3 Million for Cancer Nanotechnology Research

16 September 2015

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers received an $11.3 million, five-year grant to conduct multiple studies exploring the use of nanoparticles to create cancer vaccines and improve cancer drug delivery and...

Georgetown and Howard receive $27 million award for clinical and translational research

04 September 2015

WASHINGTON (Sept. 4, 2015) -- A large clinical research program led by Georgetown and Howard universities, facilitating the participation of more than four million Washington-area residents in clinical trials, has received...