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TraCS Regulatory service now offering quality assurance and study monitoring

17 December 2021

The NC TraCS Regulatory service provides expertise and guidance on completion of a variety of research forms and regulatory documents required when implementing a clinical study. The service is now offering quality assurance...

KickStart Commercialization Grant-Awards open for 2022 Spring cycle

13 December 2021

Ranging from $5,000 to $50,000, grant-awards are intended to help early-stage UNC-founded companies meet commercial milestones. These milestones can be technical (prototype development, conducting animal studies) or for...

NC TraCS Award Announcements

14 December 2021

The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce an award for Phase 1 of the Advancing Collaborative Team Research (ACTeR) Program. November 2021 Title: Using multi-modal methods to advance translational geroscience in patients...

Epic@UNC training updates for 2022

13 December 2021

A message from UNC Health Epic@UNC Trainers will welcome teammates back into the classroom starting Jan. 24, 2022. The team is also excited to offer 20 new accelerated/test-out options, 92 online courses—which...

Lightfoot named co-director of NC TraCS Community and Stakeholder Engagement (CaSE) program

13 December 2021

The behavioral specialist will take over for longtime CaSE leader Lori Carter-Edwards Alex Lightfoot, EdD Alexandra...

Research Advisory Council announces $50,000 grants for collaborative projects in southeastern NC

10 December 2021

The Research Advisory Council, a joint committee composed of research leaders from Novant Health, NH-New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NH-NHRMC) and UNC School of Medicine (UNC-SOM) are sponsoring two research pilot award...

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus researchers to lead multi-Institution effort to study long COVID

13 December 2021

CU Anschutz researchers will lead a team as part of a nationwide initiative to identify the risks contributing to long COVID, as well as approaches for treatment and prevention. Emily Pfaff, Co-director of Informatics and Data...

Join with NIH to advance racial and ethnic equity in the biomedical research enterprise

06 December 2021

NIH launched the UNITE initiative in March of 2021 to address structural racism in the biomedical research enterprise. Through this initiative, NIH is holding a series of listening sessions to learn from external stakeholders...

Opportunity to present on health equity research at the Paul A. Godley Health Equity Symposium

13 December 2021

The Paul A. Godley Health Equity Symposium, scheduled for March 9-10, 2022, brings together faculty, staff, students and the community to: Highlight and encourage health equity research; Promote collaboration...

100 years on: the impact of the discovery of insulin on clinical outcomes

06 December 2021

John Buse, MD, PhD NC TraCS' Co-Principal Investigator and Co-Director John Buse, MD, PhD has co-authored a paper and narrated...