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Precision Medicine's mini-symposium to highlight how data has informed our response to COVID-19

25 January 2022

Join the UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Healthcare (PPMH) for Precision Health @UNC: Precision Medicine Approaches to Addressing COVID-19, a free virtual mini-symposium on Wednesday February 23, 2022 from 1:00 to 3:00pm...

FDA approves new drug to treat generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG)

11 January 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 of Neurology,...

NC TraCS Award Announcements

24 January 2022

The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce awardees for 2 programs, September—December 2021: TraCS $2K pilot grants TraCS $2K Stakeholder Engagement vouchers Awardees include investigators from UNC School of Medicine,...

UPDATE: Collaborative pilot program launches for UNC and N.C. A&T researchers

06 January 2022

UPDATE Due to strong response from both campuses, the deadline has been extended for all interested teams for the N.C. A&T and UNC Looking Forward Pilot Program. Teams that have already submitted EOIs are welcome to resubmit...

TraCS Team Science accepting submissions for ACTeR program Phase 2

21 January 2022

TraCS Team Science is seeking to assist UNC researchers with the formation and development of multidisciplinary research teams focused on tackling challenging problems in clinical or translational medicine through the new ACTeR...

2022 MLK Lecture and Awards Ceremony rescheduled for Feb 22

05 January 2022

The MLK Lecture and Awards Ceremony has featured such speakers as journalist Soledad O’Brien, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former NAACP President/activist Benjamin Jealous, professor/author/radio host Dr. Michael...

UNC awarded $3.9-million grant to study perimenopausal-onset anhedonia and psychosis with simultaneous PET-MR

18 January 2022

NC TraCS Support: The TraCS Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) wrote a Letter of Support and agreed to serve as the DSMB for this NIH grant submission—and provided guidance on their data and safety monitoring plan....

UNC researchers awarded $4.3M from PCORI to study strategies to improve health outcomes for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their parents

04 January 2022

The PCORI Addressing Health Equity award described below was developed with funding from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the NC TraCS $2K Stakeholder Voucher award program. The TraCS Informatics and Data Science (IDSci)...

Submit a CDC special interest project application through UNC

11 January 2022

Each year, the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) has the opportunity to submit proposals to CDC in response to the RFA for "Special Interest Projects" or SIPs. An expression of interest to submit...

Feedback opportunity for healthcare providers and clinical staff

04 January 2022

Are you interested in providing feedback on how research should be conducted within your clinical setting? If so, NC TraCS would like to hear from you! We are seeking input in order to better understand the obstacles...