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Duke Endowment Awards $15.3 Million to Health Sciences - South Carolina to Advance S.C./N.C. Health Collaborative

03 June 2015

COLUMBIA, S.C., June 2, 2015 - - South Carolina and North Carolina have many things in common: southern heritage, a love of good food and family, beautiful beaches and mountains. The two states also share burdensome health...

UNC Spinout Spyryx Biosciences Secures Series A Financing

08 May 2015

Funding to Develop Novel Therapeutics for Respiratory Diseases Venture Syndicate has Strong Respiratory Expertise Research Triangle Park, NC, May 7, 2015 – Spyryx Biosciences, Inc., a privately-held biopharmaceutical company...

How federal funding cuts hurt medical research

01 June 2015

Cuts in federal support and unreliable funding streams are creating a hostile work environment for scientists. This situation is jeopardizing the future of research efforts and ultimately clinical medicine, according to leaders...

UNC Receives NIH BD2K Institutional Training Grant Award

06 May 2015

The NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative has awarded the inaugural set of BD2K institutional training grant awards, totaling $1 million in fiscal year 15. These three awards will support the overarching BD2K goal of...

UNC Wins TBJ Life Sciences Award for Chemo-Cleaning Wipe

01 June 2015

The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy received a 2015 BDO Life Sciences Award from the Triangle Business Journal on May 21 in the category of outstanding research university. Bill Zamboni & Stephen Eckel The School won for...

Announcing leadership appointments

27 April 2015

Dr. Roper has appointed several faculty members to leadership positions in the School of Medicine. The UNC Health Care and UNC School of Medicine senior executive team has been expanded, as well. Dear Colleagues, I write...

UNC Receives $15M AHRQ Award to Advance Heart Health in NC Primary Care

28 May 2015

UNC’s Heart Health Now! Advancing Heart Health in NC Primary Care project is one of seven grantees awarded as part of the AHRQ initiative, EvidenceNOW – Advancing Heart Health in Primary Care. Dr. Sam Cykert Chapel Hill...

Voluntary expanded newborn screening should be offered shortly after birth, suggests UNC CTSA Partner

24 April 2015

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – Voluntary newborn screening for disorders that are not part of regular state screening programs should be offered to families shortly after birth, suggests an editorial by Donald Bailey, Ph.D.,...

Coming in June: Webcast on Diversity and Health

20 May 2015

UNC Diversity and Multicultural Affairs and the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—in collaboration with numerous institutional partners—will host the 21st National Health...

Clinical Research Forum selects genomic analysis as top 10 research achievement

22 April 2015

A cancer genomics study led by UNC Lineberger researchers and other scientists involved in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project, a National Cancer Institute and National Human Genome Research Institute-backed effort to create...