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UNC board elects new chancellor for ECSU

05 September 2014

From WNCT: Stacey Franklin Jones has been elected as the new chancellor at Elizabeth City State University. A statement from the University of North Carolina system said the UNC Board of Governors elected the Boston native...

PCORI Offers $90 Million to Support Large Pragmatic Studies

20 August 2014

PCORI is now accepting Letters of Intent (LOIs) under their third call for proposals to conduct large pragmatic clinical studies. They will provide up to $90 million to support comparative studies that address practical questions...

Common diabetes drug not linked to short-term risk of pancreatic cancer

04 September 2014

Originally published 9/4/14 by UNC HealthcareBy Mark Derewicz CHAPEL HILL, NC – Researchers at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and the UNC School of Medicine have found that a popular class of diabetes medications...

RTI International Develops Novel Lung-on-a-Chip

15 August 2014

Originally published by Houston Chronicle from PRWeb Press Release Researchers at RTI International, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have developed a new lung-on-chip microdevice for laboratory...

UNC School of Medicine's Curriculum Evolves

28 August 2014

First-year medical school students at UNC are the guinea pigs for a new curriculum this year. The curriculum, called Transitional Education at Carolina, or TEC, launched this fall and highlights patient care, clinical experience...

War Vet Receives His Hearing Back

14 August 2014

Originally published by UNC News Services on August 13, 2014 Dr. Oliver Adunka, an ENT surgeon at UNC Health Care, was able to get Dac Carpenter into a clinical trial that installed a sound bridge in one ear. That allows Dac...

Community-based participatory research at A&T: Engaging a church to help fight childhood obesity

27 August 2014

Originally posted by Aggie Research on August 25, 2014. Childhood obesity, like any other problem in our society, isn’t a discrete issue in and of itself. It’s not just a matter of what kids eat and how active they are. It’s...

New Funding Opportunity for Collaboration - Duke/UNC CTSA Translational Pilot Grants - Request for Applications

13 August 2014

This T1/T2 pilot program is designed to encourage and facilitate novel clinical and translational research that applies or accelerates discovery into testing in clinical or population settings. Cross-disciplinary basic research...

Duke/UNC Collaboration

UNC and Duke Team Up to Fund Inter-Institutional Collaborations in Translational Research

27 August 2014

When people think about UNC and Duke, they often think about basketball rivalries, win-loss records, and March Madness. Collaboration is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. But outside athletics, these two schools...

Duke/UNC Collaboration

Miley and Tripathy named UNC Center for Structural Biology Co-Directors

07 August 2014

Michael Miley, PhD, and Ashutosh Tripathy, PhD, are the new co-directors for the UNC Center for Structural Biology (CSB). CSB has also launched a brand new website. Originally published on UNC Health Care Newsroom The UNC Center...

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