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UNC's Megan Srinivas guest on NPR's Morning Edition

25 June 2021

Iowa Plans Events To Attract Large Crowds Just Like Pre-Pandemic Occasions Megan Srinivas, MD, MPH Public health...

Don't stress the small stuff

15 June 2021

01 December 2016 | Lifestyle For a scientist focused on studying how stress affects health, COVID-19 might seem like a boon for research. But the stress wrought by the novel coronavirus has actually confounded stress-related...

Rethinking drug delivery systems

25 June 2021

Rahima Benhabbour, PhD, MSc, featured in the article below (Mary Lide Parker, UNC College of Arts & Sciences), was a TraCS KL2 scholar. This program trains and develops junior investigators to conduct interdisciplinary...

Support available for trainees submitting to Nutrition, Immunity, and Inflammation Conference

14 June 2021

Nutrition, Immunity, and Inflammation Conference: From Model Systems to Human Trials Conference dates: July 27-29, 2021 Abstract submission deadline: July 6, 2021 This virtual FASEB Science Research Conference is focused...

Three babies with Spinal Muscular Atrophy have bright futures thanks in part to North Carolina's Early Check program

25 June 2021

ABC11 recently highlighted collaborative work between UNC-Chapel Hill and TraCS partner, RTI International for the Early Check program for newborn screening. Early Check voluntarily screens newborns for diseases not included...

TraCS-funded COVID-19 simulation study shows importance of continued safety efforts

07 June 2021

Mehul Patel, PhD NC TraCS Institute COVID-19 Pilot Grant Program Mehul Patel, PhD - Department of Emergency Medicine, UNC-Chapel...

Data for COVID-19 research: N3C now offering live orientation sessions

22 June 2021

The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) is now offering live orientation sessions on using the N3C Data Enclave for your research. The N3C Data Enclave is a secure platform through which harmonized clinical data provided...

FastTraCS offers new design service for medical device innovation

04 June 2021

From Inspiration to Innovation The NC TraCS Institute's commercialization service, FastTraCS, is now offering design services to assist innovators as they translate their ideas for medical devices from napkin sketch...

UNC researchers lead study of diabetes treatment of severely ill COVID-19 patients

18 June 2021

Led by John Buse, MD, PhD, and Anna Kahkoska, MD, PhD, this analysis showed that GLP1-RA and SGLT2i medication use for type 2 diabetes of hospitalized COVID-19 patients was associated with lower odds of mortality and other...

Funding Opportunity: N.C. Diabetes Research Center releases new RFA

03 June 2021

The North Carolina Diabetes Research Center (NCDRC) has released an RFA for projects that have a clear diabetes focus. The Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) program is designed to encourage and facilitate novel basic,...