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Accepting applications: Clinical Trialist Training Program

14 February 2025

The Clinical Trialist Training Program (CTTP) is a NC TraCS initiative that provides 10% salary support for one year of training to develop new site investigators for multicenter clinical trials. The goal of this program...

Owen Fenton is exploring the possibilities of genetic medicine

27 January 2025

Fenton is studying how targeted genetic therapies could help solve an array of diseases and conditions—how we might create, deliver, and activate mRNA as medicine using the fundamental basis of our biology to search for...

TraCS Scholar Profiles

Sam Lai: Boldly Breaking Barriers

10 February 2025

Sam Lai, PhD, has founded multiple startups by studying underexplored processes in the body—like mucus production. Several TraCS programs, including Biostatistics, Pilot Funding, and Regulatory, have supported Lai’s...

UNC ‘breakthrough’ research on food allergy drug featured in National Geographic

21 January 2025

The NC TraCS Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC) provided space and skilled nursing staff for the clinical trial described below. The TraCS IDSci service also supported the trial by using the CDW-H for identifying...

Community engagement studios: connecting patients and researchers to improve care

10 February 2025

Sarah Verbiest, DrPH, Director of the Jordan Institute for Families at the UNC School of Social Work, writes about her experience working to improve research in maternal health. The project described was supported in...

UNC CCCR offers pilot grants for independently and non-independently funded researchers

17 January 2025

The UNC Core Center for Clinical Research (CCCR) is now accepting applications for pilot grant funding for independently funded and non-independently funded researchers. The CCCR helps researchers: Design, implement...

TraCS + Lineberger to host Engagement in Research 101 event during Carolina Engagement Week

04 February 2025

Carolina Engagement Week is a celebration of UNC-Chapel Hill's engagement with the state of North Carolina. Engagement Week 2025 begins Monday, February 24 with over 40 events already scheduled. Explore the many ways...

Rare Disease Day 2025 scheduled for February 27-28

17 January 2025

FDA-NIH Rare Disease Day is scheduled for February 27–28, 2025. This year, NCATS is co-hosting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to provide a free, public event held on the NIH Main Campus at the...

TraCS partners with UNC Clinical Research Alliance to support multi-site clinical trial coordination

03 February 2025

The UNC School of Medicine Clinical Research Alliance (CRA) partners with UNC investigators, government agencies, industry partners, and foundations to serve as UNC School of Medicine's hub for leading and coordinating...

Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs leadership to visit Chapel Hill

17 January 2025

Exploring CDMRP Biomedical Research Funding Opportunities in North Carolina The Office of Research Development is pleased to welcome leadership from the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)...

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