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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

21st Century Cures Act will change lives for the better

17 July 2015

Advances in biomedical and pharmaceutical research continue to occur at a dizzying pace. Yet the process of moving these discoveries out of the lab and into the real world where they can benefit people is frustratingly slow. That...

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...

How connecting experts can boost business

15 July 2015

An online tool that gathers information on researchers, publications and grants has been supporting economic development in North Carolina Sharlini Sankaran, PhD Dr. Sharlini Sankaran, founding Executive Director of the...

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,...

UNC-Chapel Hill pairs research expertise with industry needs

13 July 2015

A shorter road from ideas to the marketplace In 2015, UNC-Chapel Hill joined the ranks of the top 10 U.S. research universities, thanks to a diverse portfolio of nearly $1 billion annually. Global industry leaders like GlaxoSmithKline,...

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...

New App Provides “Safe-Harbor Sandbox” for Researchers to Delve Into Clinical Data

07 July 2015

i2b2 training at the Health Sciences Library Researchers who would like to explore the depths of health care information contained within the Carolina Data Warehouse for Health now have a safe and easy way to test the waters...

Ron Falk named one of 15 Leading Professors of Nephrology and Dialysis Technology

20 July 2015

Ronald Falk, MD Congratulations to Dr. Ronald Falk, Director of the UNC Kidney Center, Distinguished Professor in the UNC School of Medicine and Co-Director of the Transformative Technologies Initiative at NC TraCS. He's...

Imaging Beyond Anatomy

30 June 2015

A UNC core facility churns out radioactive agents to investigate the subcellular activity that drives disease Inside the radiochemistry lab, where the radioactive materials are prepared for imaging. A modern-day version...