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Keeping an Eye on Diabetes

28 June 2010

Keeping an Eye on Diabetes Telemedicine delivers screening for retinopathy Diabetic retinopathy – damage to the eye’s retina caused by long-term diabetes – is the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults in the U.S....

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27 May 2010

Changes in national clinical and translational research consortium

28 June 2010

Changes in National Clinical and Translational Research Consortium The National Institutes of Health announced that it will provide $200 million over five years to five health research centers to speed scientific discoveries...

Passion, Persistence and Serendipity

27 May 2010

Serendipity and science often go together. Examples abound of fortuitous accidents in the lab or “failures” like the adhesive that spawned the success of 3M’s Post-It Notes. Here’s another. UNC-Chapel Hill’s Perinatal Psychiatry...

New Collaboration Opportunities for Translational Research

28 June 2010

New Collaboration Opportunities for Translational Research The Clinical and Translational Science Awards consortium has established a website where researchers can post requests for needed collaborators to build out an idea...

Apps as Tools for Managing Health

27 May 2010

Apps as Tools for Managing Health Whether it’s counting calories, tracking training runs or managing a chronic disease, to use a tired phrase, “There’s an app for that.” Now more than ever people are using applications for...

Research Roundup

01 June 2010

Not all researchers who receive support from NC TraCS are basic scientists or clinicians. In fact, since the inception of the NC TraCS Pilot Program in October 2008, 16 scientists from the College of Arts & Sciences have landed...

Leading from the Community

27 May 2010

Leading from the Community Al Richmond has won a seat at the table. Richmond will take office as one of three co-chairs of the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Key Function Committee (KFC) on Community...

Pilot Grant Awards Roundup

01 June 2010

The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute is pleased to announce awardees of the second cycle of TraCS $5K-$50K grants for clinical and translational research projects. 23 applications were...

What About Our Daughters?

27 May 2010

What About Our Daughters? Women's health begins in childhood The term “women’s health” implies a separation between what a female does during adulthood to stay healthy from what she did – or had done for her – as a child....