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NC TraCS and partners establish CDTR pilot and feasibility program

28 June 2010

NC TraCS and partners establish CDTR pilot and feasibility program The UNC Center for Diabetes Translation Research to Reduce Disparities (CDTR) and the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute...

Keeping an Eye on Diabetes

28 June 2010

Keeping an Eye on Diabetes Telemedicine delivers screening for retinopathy Diabetic retinopathy – damage to the eye’s retina caused by long-term diabetes – is the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults in the U.S....

Lab Organization for Dummies

28 June 2010

Lab Organization for Dummies New app makes the bookkeeping of lab management fun and simple One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions is undoubtedly to get organized. Once the holidays are over, magazines with tips to...

Changes in national clinical and translational research consortium

28 June 2010

Changes in National Clinical and Translational Research Consortium The National Institutes of Health announced that it will provide $200 million over five years to five health research centers to speed scientific discoveries...

Evidence academy to address tobacco control and lung cancer screening

28 June 2010

Evidence academy to address tobacco control and lung cancer screening Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of disease, disability and death in the United States. Every year, almost half a million people die prematurely...

New Collaboration Opportunities for Translational Research

28 June 2010

New Collaboration Opportunities for Translational Research The Clinical and Translational Science Awards consortium has established a website where researchers can post requests for needed collaborators to build out an idea...

Heartbreak Hill

28 June 2010

Heartbreak Hill Why does it take so long to develop new treatments for diseases? And what can we do about it? In May 2010, stay-at-home mom Jill Wood learned that her two-year-old son Jonah had an extremely rare and fatal...

Research Roundup

01 June 2010

Not all researchers who receive support from NC TraCS are basic scientists or clinicians. In fact, since the inception of the NC TraCS Pilot Program in October 2008, 16 scientists from the College of Arts & Sciences have landed...

Google for Neurologists

28 June 2010

Google for Neurologists New app could help doctors care for their Alzheimer's patients Javed Mostafa, Ph.D., is an information junkie. As a professor with joint appointments in Information Science and the Biomedical Research...

Pilot Grant Awards Roundup

01 June 2010

The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute is pleased to announce awardees of the second cycle of TraCS $5K-$50K grants for clinical and translational research projects. 23 applications were...