UNC researchers Teresa Tarrant, M.D., and David Siderovksi, Ph.D., have been awarded a 2-year, $400,000 grant by the American College of Rheumatology to explore how a newly discovered protein – called GPSM3 – may serve as a...

The newly established UNC Center for Diabetes Translation Research to Reduce Health Disparities (CDTR) recently brought together institutional partners and diabetes researchers to foster collaboration during its first annual...

Don Rose, Ph.D., executive director of Carolina KickStart, will serve on a panel discussion about the future of technology transfer and university-based commercialization at MedCity CONVERGE, a national conference on health...

The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute is pleased to announce awardees of the thirty-eighth cycle of TraCS $2K grants for clinical and translational research projects. 11 applications were...

The North Carolina Network Consortium (NCNC) recently held a day-long conference in Greensboro bringing together primary care physicians, clinic staff, health care researchers and public health workers. Titled “Emerging Issues...

Congratulations to Kenneth Ataga, M.D., and Nigel Mackman, Ph.D., who have received a 50K Planning Grant from the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute. They will use the funds to pursue a...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $407,000 grant to Joan Cates, Ph.D., M.P.H., a researcher in the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication, to develop and implement a campaign to raise awareness...

Have you noticed while riding a Chapel Hill Transit bus lately that Rosie the Riveter is staring back at you from a poster exclaiming “We Can Do It!”? She’s rolled up her sleeves this time to go to work for improved health....

Fourteen startup companies – eight scientific and six technology firms -- based on innovations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill each gave 8-minute presentations to more than 200 potential investors and managers...

UNC has partnered with five other clinical centers to create a national data hub for investigating what tests and treatments are most effective for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD. The national...