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Fernandez and Corbie author book highlighting vital role of community based change in achieving health equity

21 February 2022

Co-edited by Claudia S.P. Fernandez, DrPH, and Giselle Corbie, MD, healthcare experts from nurses to social workers present a way forward which shifts away from our fragmented and often judgmental approach to health in the...

NCATS sets disease treatment goals for next decade

01 February 2022

Joni L. Rutter, PhD Currently, only 5% of rare diseases have a treatment. Joni L. Rutter, PhD, Acting Director of the National...

RTI to lead coordinating center for new NIH initiative to personalize dietary guidance to improve health

15 February 2022

TraCS Partner News Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by the All of Us Research Program, aims to develop algorithms that predict individual responses to food and dietary patterns. RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.—...

NRP Professional Development Award now accepting applications for 2022

31 January 2022

The UNC Network for Research Professionals (NRP) is proud to announce the 2022 NRP Professional Development Award. This award provides supplemental funding to help cover professional development opportunities for UNC-Chapel...

Anstrom to lead Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center at Gillings

15 February 2022

Kevin Anstrom, PhD TraCS welcomes Kevin Anstrom, PhD, to UNC, and we look forward to working together. Kevin Anstrom, PhD,...

New Community and Patient Advisory Board will guide equitable approaches to clinical and translational science at NC TraCS

31 January 2022

In October 2021, the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute launched a new Community and Patient Advisory Board (CPAB) focused on promoting and supporting equity in research. The 11-member...

The pandemic's impact on primary care Practice-Based Research Networks

15 February 2022

Drs. Katrina Donahue, Jacquie Halladay, Michelle Hernandez, and colleagues published in Health Affairs using the analogy of a watershed to explain the primary care system and how the pandemic has adversely affected its Practice-Based...

Applications now open for TraCS TL1 postdoc fellowship

28 January 2022

NC TraCS is recruiting candidates for a 1-year postdoc research and training experience to translate a product/idea/research results in any of these areas: Commercialization/entrepreneurship: patenting, start-ups,...

Expanding UNC research to new participants

04 February 2022

From Buncombe County to the Outer Banks, people across North Carolina are interested and searching for research participation opportunities. Research for Me, the centralized resource at the University of North Carolina...

NC TraCS Pilot Program Update January 2022

25 January 2022

Funding for the current CTSA grant ends in February 2023. Because we cannot guarantee uninterrupted pilot support until we know that NC TraCS funding is secure, we are suspending all TraCS pilot programs ($2K, $2K Stakeholder...