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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...

Call for Papers: WHITE Conference in Health IT

07 August 2014

Less than two weeks are left to submit to the call for papers for the 5th annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics (WHITE). Driven by the continuing digitization of medical information, rapid innovations in technology, and...

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 researchers discover how Hepatitis C virus persists for years

06 August 2014

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) lingers in the human body for years, slowly damaging the liver and leading to liver diseases such as hepatitis, cirrhosis and liver cancer, which is often fatal. Research conducted at the University...

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...

Genetic mutations linked to salivary gland tumors may point to new therapies

06 August 2014

Originally published at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Website Faculty members at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry, The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and other institutions have discovered...

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

American Mock World Health Organization 2014

06 August 2014

If you are interested in global health, global health policy, diplomacy, or international law, the American Mock World Health Organization (AMWHO) conference is right for you. AMWHO is the nation's very first simulation of...

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...

MUSC and UNC-Chapel Hill Test Diabetes Outreach Program

06 August 2014

MUSC and UNC-Chapel Hill join forces to test a diabetes outreach program, facilitated by iPad technology, to reduce hospital readmission for patients in rural Bamberg County. Charleston, S.C. — South Carolina Clinical...