Elizabeth Mayer-Davis, Ph.D., professor of nutrition in UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and professor of medicine in the UNC School of Medicine, has been appointed by President Barack Obama to a new health care...

As doctors prepare to manage an influx of new hepatitis C patients and treatment options, a collaboration between academia, industry and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is poised to deliver real-world data that can help...

The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce awardees of the seventh cycle of TraCS $10k grants for clinical and translational research projects. 35 applications were received, and 9 (listed below) were chosen for funding....

Originally published by UNC Health Care on August 8, 2013 A researcher at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a $4 million, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health for a clinical trial...

The air pollution in China was so horrifying that UNC School of Medicine graduate student Lindsay Jaacks had to wear a mask when she took to the streets of Beijing. She also decided to pursue a new line of research – the...

Originally published by UNC News Services on August 8, 2013 A new multidisciplinary clinical research center (MCRC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, funded by a $5.6 million grant from the National Institutes...

Support expands the consortium’s reach to New Hampshire Translating basic discoveries into new treatments that tangibly improve human health requires innovative collaborations and resources, as well as a diverse, highly trained...

Translational research grant is one of 150 collaborative UB-VA research projects that will benefit veterans BUFFALO, N.Y. — Veterans aren’t surprised when they suffer hearing loss after combat exposure to explosions,...

Augment Medical, Meryx Pharmaceuticals, Glycan Therapeutics and Spirovation have received a total of $80,000 in commercialization awards from Carolina KickStart, a service of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences...

Originally published by NIH on August 7, 2013 The National Institutes of Health today announced in Nature that it has reached an understanding with the family of the late Henrietta Lacks to allow biomedical researchers controlled...