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NIH-funded project at UNC to see if texts, games and web portals can increase HPV vaccination

22 October 2014

Originally published in UNC News Targeted health communication should raise awareness in doctors, parents and preteens (Chapel Hill, N.C.—Sept. 23, 2014) – Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted...

5 Ways UNC Informatics will Improve Health Care for North Carolinians

12 September 2014

Originally published on UNC Health Care & UNC School of Medicine Newsroom Health informatics is changing the way North Carolinians receive their care. Sam Cykert, professor of medicine and director of the UNC School of...

UNC’s Drug-Discovery Center attracts $3 million gift

22 October 2014

Originally published in UNC News Gift will support the Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy (Chapel Hill, N.C. – Oct. 21, 2014) – The pharmacy school at the University...

UNC clinic to celebrate patients who have survived HIV for two decades

11 September 2014

Published in the Durham Herald-Sun, 9/9/14 CHAPEL HILL — When Lynda Bell worked with patients with HIV in the early 1990s, the number of deaths that she saw was terrifying. But across her years of working with HIV patients...

Congratulations, Dr. Paul Watkins, 2015 ASCPT Scientific Award Recipient

25 September 2014

Dr. Watkins receives Rawls-Palmer Progress in Medicine Award Paul Watkins, MD Paul Watkins, MD, is a recipient of this year's ASCPT Scientific Awards. Dr. Watkins was awarded the Rawls-Palmer Progress in Medicine Award. Dr....

Announcement of NC TraCS $2K Pilot Program 58th Round Awardees

10 September 2014

The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce awardees of TraCS $2K small grants for clinical and translational research projects. 11 applications were received and 4 (listed below) were chosen for funding from the UNC-CH School...

Calling all Researchers… Get help with clinical & translational research

23 September 2014

Join the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 any time between 10:00am and 5:00pm for the NC TraCS Open House! Come by to learn about the wide variety of services and resources...

RTI International, UNC to survey muscular dystrophy in North Carolina’s Piedmont

05 September 2014

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — RTI International, in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been awarded a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct...

Folt op-ed: American universities can improve upon successes

23 September 2014

U.S. News and World Report recently published the following op-ed from UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol L. Folt. The focus: why higher education needs to find new ways to prepare students for the jobs and industries of the...

Congratulations Tamera Coyne-Beasley

05 September 2014

UNC faculty recognized for projects that strengthen relationships with communities The fourth class of Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars graduated earlier this month Tamera Coyne-Beasley, MD, MPH, FAAP (Chapel Hill, N.C. —...