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All Fired Up

08 August 2012

Your brain is composed of billions of tiny elements, each communicating with the other through a series of electrical impulses. The aggregate of all these electrical signals makes you who you are – enabling you to use your...

Pioneering Study Shows Drug Can Purge Dormant HIV

30 July 2012

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have published pioneering research showing that a drug used to treat certain types of lymphoma was able to dislodge hidden virus in patients receiving treatment...

UNC Rises in Research Ranking

08 August 2012

Students and faculty will have more opportunities to complete research projects and make breakthroughs, thanks to UNC’s new research ranking among public and private universities. UNC rose from 16th to ninth place overall for...

Activist, Nutritionist Sees Food as Key to Health and Prosperity

27 July 2012

Alice Ammerman, Dr.P.H., R.D., was an activist in nutritional issues long before childhood obesity, diabetes or the sustainable local food movement were headline news. As a student of African studies and anthropology – and...

Milk Thistle, Taken by Many People for Liver Disease, Ineffective as Treatment for Hepatitis C

08 August 2012

Silymarin or “milk thistle,” a popular herbal dietary supplement that many people take for liver ailments, works no better than placebo in patients with chronic hepatitis C infection. That’s the conclusion of a multicenter...

PCORI Seeks Input on Draft Methodology Report

23 July 2012

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced the start of a public comment period for its landmark draft Methodology Report, which proposes standards for the conduct of patient-centered outcomes...

Kudos to Diane Berry, Ph.D.

30 July 2012

Diane Berry, Ph.D., an associate professor of nursing at UNC-Chapel Hill, recently used preliminary data from an NC TraCS 50K pilot award to land an R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health. She and her colleagues will...

Healthy Barbecue?

23 July 2012

Barbecue can be good for you. No, that is not a misprint. Just ask Alice Ammerman, Ph.D., and Catherine Rohweder, Dr.P.H., who demonstrated the unlikely benefits of this Southern favorite by cooking healthy BBQ at a booth at...

NC TraCS $2K Pilot Program 41st Round Awardees

30 July 2012

The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce awardees of TraCS $2K small grants for clinical and translational research projects. 8 applications were received and 3 (listed below) were chosen for funding, from the UNC-CH Schools...

Spotlight on: The Regulatory Core

23 July 2012

Since its inception, the North Carolina Clinical and Translational Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute has helped thousands of investigators conduct their research faster, cheaper and more efficiently. For its part, the NC TraCS...