Since its inception, the North Carolina Clinical and Translational Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute has helped thousands of investigators conduct their research faster, cheaper and more efficiently. For its part, the NC TraCS...

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...

Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D., Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry and director of the Carolina Center for Nanotechnology Excellence at UNC and co-founder of UNC startup Liquidia Technologies, which recently formed a collaboration...

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...

Liquidia Technologies, a University of North Carolina startup company founded on the nanopartical technology discoveries of Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D., Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry at UNC and Kenan Professor of Chemical...

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...

The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce awardees of the third cycle of TraCS $5K-$50K grants for clinical and translational research projects. 26 applications were received and 10 were chosen for funding. Awardees include...

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...

Adam Zolotor, MD, MPH, an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, has been selected as the new vice president at the North Carolina Institute of Medicine...

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...