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Four Startup Companies Receive Commercialization Awards from Carolina KickStart, NC TraCS

25 September 2013

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...

NIH, Lacks Family Reach Understanding to Share Genomic Data of HeLa Cells

13 August 2013

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...

FDA, Academia and Industry Team Up to End Hepatitis C

06 September 2013

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...

Human Cells Respond in Healthy, Unhealthy Ways to Different Kinds of Happiness

05 August 2013

Originally published by UNC News Services on July 29, 2013 Human bodies recognize at the molecular level that not all happiness is created equal, responding in ways that can help or hinder physical health, according to new...

NIH Awards $4 Million Grant to UNC and Egan for Lung Transplant Research

15 August 2013

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...

Translational Research is Alive and Well at VCU

01 August 2013

For many, the solutions to our most complex disease problems — cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, to name a few — remain painfully elusive. Why, in the era of the Human Genome Project, modern molecular biology and genetics and...

$5.6 Million NIH Grant Funds New UNC Osteoarthritis Research Center

13 August 2013

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...

Faculty Research Funding Increases to $777.8 Million

30 July 2013

Originally published by UNC News Services on July 25, 2013 Faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill secured $777.8 million in research funding during fiscal 2013. That total is up nearly $11 million – 1.4...

VA awards grant to UB researchers to study vision loss in veterans exposed to blasts

13 August 2013

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,...

UNC Core Facility Helps Researchers Uncover the Function of Our Genes

30 July 2013

Approximately 20,000 genes make up the instruction manual for our bodies. To figure out what each of these genes does, scientists have generally used two tactics: either “knocking down” the gene or the opposite, overexpressing...