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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...

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...

NC TraCS $2K Pilot Program Thirty-Ninth Round Awardees

29 May 2012

The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute is pleased to announce awardees of the thirty-ninth cycle of TraCS $2K grants for clinical and translational research projects. 9 applications were...

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.

HIV Hides Soon After Infection, UNC Research Shows

29 May 2012

While current therapies are effective at controlling HIV, some virus remains hidden in certain CD4+ T cells, specialized immune system cells that the virus uses to replicate. This latent infection remains a significant challenge...

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...

BCBSNC Names Lisa Carey to Board of Trustees

24 May 2012

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) has named Lisa Carey, M.D., to its board of trustees. Carey is medical director of the UNC Breast Center, associate director of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center...