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Joseph DeSimone to Lead Kenan Institute

18 July 2012

Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D., Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry and director of the Carolina Center for Nanotechnology Excellence at UNC and co-founder of UNC startup Liquidia Technologies, which recently formed a collaboration...

In Discussing a Cure for HIV, Researchers Say the Time is Now

28 June 2012

Despite the success of antiretroviral drug therapy, more people contract HIV every day than initiate treatment. Even if clinicians administered antiretrovirals to each infected individual – an unattainable task, especially...

UNC Startup Liquidia Collaborates with GSK on Product Development

12 July 2012

Liquidia Technologies, a University of North Carolina startup company founded on the nanopartical technology discoveries of Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D., Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry at UNC and Kenan Professor of Chemical...

TraCS Member Lisa Carey Marks 200th Anniversary of NEJM

26 June 2012

Lisa A. Carey, M.D., the Richardson and Marilyn Jacobs Preyer Distinguished Professorship in Breast Cancer Research, presented an invited lecture June 26, at Harvard Medical School to mark the 200th anniversary of the New England...

NC TraCS $5K-$50K Pilot Program Third Round Awardees

10 July 2012

The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce awardees of the third cycle of TraCS $5K-$50K grants for clinical and translational research projects. 26 applications were received and 10 were chosen for funding. Awardees include...

For Kids, Clinical Trials Give Renewed Hope

25 June 2012

At first glance, Holden Trent looks like the typical all-American boy – soccer jersey, blonde hair and blue eyes, even freckles. But unlike most kids, he spent much of his childhood sidelined by painful tummy aches and frequent...

UNC Family Medicine Physician Named New Vice President at the North Carolina Institute of Medicine

10 July 2012

Adam Zolotor, MD, MPH, an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, has been selected as the new vice president at the North Carolina Institute of Medicine...

NC TraCS $2K Pilot Program Fortieth Round Awardees

23 June 2012

The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute is pleased to announce awardees of the fortieth cycle of TraCS $2K grants for clinical and translational research projects. 6 applications were received...

A Passion for Service Leads to Career Spent Solving Puzzles

10 July 2012

Few people discern their life’s calling by kindergarten, but Joanne Jordan, M.D., M.P.H., did. The sight on television of a malnourished African child, suffering from kwashiorkor – a protein deficiency characterized by a bloated...

UNC Researchers Receive PCORI Pilot Awards

22 June 2012

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has announced the approval of 50 research funding awards, totaling $30 million over two years, through its Pilot Projects Program, which will address a broad range of...