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Keeping an Eye on Diabetes

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....

Passion, Persistence and Serendipity

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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....

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