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UNC NORC call for Pilot Award applications - underrepresented groups

15 June 2022

The primary objective of this request for applications is to support the development of innovative research in nutrition and obesity at UNC-Chapel Hill. This award cycle is specifically designed for researchers from underrepresented...

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...

Pfaff featured in NIH Director’s Blog

09 June 2022

Emily Pfaff, PhD, MS NIH Director's Blog features a UNC-led study on how a well-trained computer and its artificial intelligence...

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...

InsideTraCS — with Ashley Arrington

06 June 2022

Ashley Arrington is Program Manager at the NC TraCS Research Coordination & Management Unit (RCMU). She has clinical research experience in various disease states and patient populations. Her primary research interests...

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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...

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