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National Science Foundation issues call for proposals for Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program

24 May 2022

Limited Submissions: Internal Call for Proposals — National Science Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) The National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) serves to increase access...

Donahue, Young Awarded NIH Grant to Study Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support

09 May 2022

Katrina Donahue, MD, MPH, and Laura Young, MD, PhD, received a grant from the National Institute of Health to increase uptake of diabetes self-management education. The study will focus on two factors: provider and diabetes...

Use cases show Translator's potential to expedite clinical research

23 May 2022

RENCI investigators are contributing to the development of a platform called Biomedical Data Translator that will allow researchers to easily access and interrelate large amounts of data relevant to advancing biomedical...

FDA approves treatment for Myasthenia Gravis after Phase III study led by James Howard, MD

03 May 2022

The CHAMPION-MG study was conducted at the NC TraCS Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC). James F. Howard, Jr, MD, in the UNC Department of Neurology is the lead primary investigator in...

2022 NC Women's Health Report Card released by CWHR

23 May 2022

In honor of National Women's Health Week, the UNC Center for Women's Health Research (CWHR) has released the 2022 North Carolina Women's Health Report Card, an overview the health and health care needs of our state's 5+ million...

Pfaff discusses how machine learning models could help in long Covid research

03 May 2022

Published in STAT News on April 29, 2022 Researchers test the power of machine learning to unravel long Covid's mysteries by Katie Palmer Long Covid, with its constellation of symptoms, is proving a challenging moving...

Scientists use machine learning models to help identify long COVID patients

17 May 2022

A study published in The Lancet Digital Health led by UNC School of Medicine's Emily R. Pfaff, PhD, shows how the National COVID Cohort Collaborative used XGBoost machine learning models to better define long COVID and identify...

A new wave of psychiatric care

25 April 2022

UNC-affiliated startup Pulvinar Neuro's novel treatment for mental illness – a technology that uses closed-loop, non-invasive stimulation of brain waves – offers hope to a rising tide of patients and recently led to the company's...

NC TraCS Award Announcements

16 May 2022

The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce awardees for 2 programs, January and February 2022 cycles: TraCS $2K pilot grants TraCS $2K Stakeholder Engagement vouchers Awardees include investigators from the School...

Interim data suggest long-term treatment with VYVGART provides improvement in gMG scores

11 April 2022

The Phase 3 ADAPT trial and the ADAPT-plus extension trial were conducted at the NC TraCS Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC). James F. Howard Jr., MD, professor in the UNC Department...