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NIH Proposes Principles and Guidelines for Reporting Preclinical Research

05 November 2014

NIH held a joint workshop in June 2014 with the Nature Publishing Group and Science on the issue of reproducibility and rigor of research findings, with journal editors representing over 30 basic/preclinical science journals...

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....

Sleath Gets $1.9 Million to Get Teens More Involved in Managing Asthma

29 October 2014

Teens with asthma aren't great at taking an active role during doctor visits. A team at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy believes changing that is a matter of asking the right questions. Betsy Sleath, PhD Working with...

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...

5 Ways Community Service Enhances Medical Education

23 October 2014

Originally posted in the UNC Health Care Newsroom The UNC School of Medicine has long valued the role of community service in medical education and emphasized focus on care for underserved populations. Second-year medical...

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...

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...