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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...

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...

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...

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...

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),...

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...

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...

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”...

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...