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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...

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...

Severe Pain Common in Sexual Assault Survivors in the Post-Assault Period, But Rarely Treated

19 June 2012

Despite the fact that the majority of women presenting to emergency departments for care after sexual assault experience severe pain, very few receive pain treatment.

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...

Five More Pharmaceutical Companies join NIH Initiative to Speed Therapeutic Discovery

18 June 2012

Five additional pharmaceutical companies have joined a National Institutes of Health-led effort to help scientists research promising new treatments for patients. Funding and molecular compound information is available now...

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 to offer M.D.-M.B.A. dual-degree program through new collaboration

13 June 2012

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine and Kenan-Flagler Business School have partnered to launch a unique dual-degree program offering medical students the opportunity to earn doctor 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...

Brain Cell Activity Imbalance May Account for Seizure Susceptibility in Angelman Syndrome

10 June 2012

New research by scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine may have pinpointed an underlying cause of the seizures that affect 90 percent of people with Angelman syndrome (AS), a neurodevelopmental d...