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Duke-UNC brings collaboration, too

06 March 2015

When the Duke’s men’s basketball team travels to the Dean E. Smith Center on Saturday evening, it will be walking into a raucous, hostile arena created by decades of rivalry. But off the court and outside the Dean Dome, University...

Duke/UNC Collaboration

Carolina’s Dean Smith passes away at age 83

09 February 2015

CHAPEL HILL – Former University of North Carolina head men’s basketball coach Dean Smith died Saturday evening in Chapel Hill. He was 83 years old. “Coach Dean Smith passed away peacefully the evening of February 7 at his...

Tropsha Appointed Editor of ACS Chemistry Journal

02 March 2015

Alexander Tropsha, PhD Alexander Tropsha, PhD, has been appointed associate editor of the American Chemical Society’s Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. Tropsha is the K. H. Lee Distinguished Professor in the...

UNC and Duke Researchers Collaborate to Predict Drug Safety in Preemies

02 February 2015

Children are not simply little adults. Not only do they not behave like adults, but their bodies are vastly different, with more bones, thinner skin, and narrower airways. And because of their faster metabolisms and smaller...

Duke/UNC Collaboration

Researchers pinpoint two genes that trigger severest form of ovarian cancer

25 February 2015

Terry Magnuson, PhD CHAPEL HILL, NC – In the battle against ovarian cancer, UNC School of Medicine researchers have created the first mouse model of the worst form of the disease and found a potential route to better treatments...

Dr. John Buse Named New Director of the NC TraCS Institute

30 January 2015

Dear Colleagues, I write to you today about changes to our leadership structure in the UNC School of Medicine. Effective immediately, I am appointing several faculty members to new administrative positions.

New UNC-Duke Collaboration Applies Cystic Fibrosis Therapies to Heart Disease

13 February 2015

Given sufficient time, many forms of cardiovascular disease turn into heart failure, our nation’s number one killer. The disease affects six million Americans and costs the health care system a whopping $39 billion a year....

Duke/UNC Collaboration

Cone named Interim Vice Chancellor of Commercialization and Economic Development

28 January 2015

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has named Judith Cone, current special assistant to the chancellor and interim director of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, as interim vice chancellor...

Parsing the Pathways

11 February 2015

In the war against cancer, it would be great if all cancer cells used the same sorts of trickery to develop, grow, and spread. Unfortunately, they don’t. Various kinds of cancer cells use many different cellular pathways –...

Recapping Student Research Day

23 January 2015

On Jan. 12, nearly 100 students from the School of Medicine participated in the John B. Graham Society's 47th Annual Student Research Day. The day began with poster presentations. Students lined the ground floor of UNC Hospitals...

Duke-UNC brings collaboration, too

Carolina’s Dean Smith passes away at age 83

Tropsha Appointed Editor of ACS Chemistry Journal

UNC and Duke Researchers Collaborate to Predict Drug Safety in Preemies

Researchers pinpoint two genes that trigger severest form of ovarian cancer

Dr. John Buse Named New Director of the NC TraCS Institute

New UNC-Duke Collaboration Applies Cystic Fibrosis Therapies to Heart Disease

Cone named Interim Vice Chancellor of Commercialization and Economic Development

Parsing the Pathways

Recapping Student Research Day

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