Skip to main content

Project Update: Work to Eradicate HIV Continues

Several developments are worth noting from the $32 million, five-year federal grant led by UNC professor David Margolis, M.D., to cure HIV by purging the virus hiding in the immune systems of patients on antiretroviral therapy...

Improving Stroke Survivors' Ability to Walk

An NC TraCS $10K pilot grant, awarded to Michael Lewek, PT, Ph.D., has now led to a $400K NIH R21 grant to continue work studying ways to help stroke survivors’ improve their ability to walk. Lewek is an assistant professor...

Older Women May Not Need Bone Density Screening as Often

NC TraCS member Margaret Gourlay, M.D., is lead author of the study, which is published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and other organizations have recommended that women ages...

A Virtual Lab Tackles a Real Health Problem

Question: When is a lab, not really a lab? Answer: When it is the Scientific Collaborative for Overweight and Obesity Prevention Treatment, aka the SCOOPT lab. You won’t find microscopes, test tubes or mice here, but the rest...

View news related to policies and regulations

Have news or an announcement to share? Contact Michelle Maclay at michelle_maclay@med.unc.edu

Get NC TraCS events and news delivered to your inbox! Subscribe to our weekly email blast