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NC TraCS welcomes new COO

02 September 2015

Andrea Carnegie, PhD joins NC TraCS as the new Chief Operating Officer on September 21. She currently serves in a similar role as Director of Administrative Operations (since 2011) at the University of Illinois at Chicago...

NC TraCS Awards First “Improving Human Health” Grants to Projects Developing New Biomarkers

19 August 2015

The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute has awarded the first round of $100,000 grants to two teams of UNC-Chapel Hill investigators who are developing new biomarkers for chronic diseases. The...

Diabetes drug metformin’s primary effect is in the gut, not the bloodstream

26 August 2015

New study in Diabetes Care suggests new delayed-release metformin could help 40 percent of type 2 diabetes patients that currently can’t take metformin. John Buse, MD, PhD CHAPEL HILL NC – Although metformin was introduced...

Duke-UNC CTSA Pilot Grant Expands to Include Population Health Research

13 August 2015

Duke-UNC CTSA Collaborative Pilot Grants now looking for projects that fall anywhere on the spectrum of translational research, from laboratory bench to population health. The Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill CTSA programs are...

Duke/UNC Collaboration

Successful Research Collaborations follow “Engineering Solutions to Health Problems: A Workshop”

25 August 2015

On April 17, 2015, at The William and Ida Friday Center, the NC TraCS Team Science Resource successfully connected engineers and clinicians in a workshop entitled “Engineering Solutions to Health Problems,” in order to build...

TraCS Director John Buse speaks at Carolina's Board of Trustees meeting

30 July 2015

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees welcomed five new members at the July 23 meeting and re-emphasized its focus on internal improvement and external communication. “I think everyone will agree...

Wake Forest Baptist joins CTSA

25 August 2015

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center said this week that it has joined the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical and Translational Science Award consortium aimed at improving health. Called CTSA, the consortium is a group...

RTP's Frontier Welcomes REACH NC

28 July 2015

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – REACH NC, the Web portal that helps bring the expertise of thousands of North Carolina-based researchers to businesses, developers, government agencies, and the public, has a new home at The Frontier,...

Zhen Gu named to MIT Technology Review’s top innovators under 35

19 August 2015

Zhen Gu, an assistant professor in North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s joint biomedical engineering program, has been named one of MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35”...

UNC research team advances in national competition

28 July 2015

The team will develop a business plan to market their diagnostic tool for schizophrenia A team of UNC graduate students is entering the final phase of a competition to create a startup based on innovations in neuroscience. The...