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Annual $50,000 innovation pilot awards request for proposal released

30 November 2020

The Center for Health Innovation has released the request for proposal for the 2021 Innovation Pilot Awards The Center for Health Innovation of UNC Health and the UNC School of Medicine has released the request for proposal...

NC State offers researchers access to new Centennial Biomedical Clinical Manufacturing Facility

10 November 2020

NC State's Comparative Medicine Institute has opened its Biomedical Clinical Manufacturing Facility, and offers UNC researchers and faculty access to its new space and resources. Focusing on stem cells and regenerative medicine,...

NCDRC releases 2021 pilot grant RFA

24 November 2020

The North Carolina Diabetes Research Center (NCDRC) has released its 2021 Pilot Grant RFA. The LOI deadline is Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 11:59 PM ET. You can also visit the NCDRC Funding page for details. As...

Experts lead call to action for doctors to heed guidelines on diabetes care

05 November 2020

Published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, a paper co-authored by seven leading diabetes experts in Europe and the United States, including UNC's John Buse, MD, PhD, warns against medical inertia that prevents physicians...

Wake Forest and Duke CTSAs collaborate on national clinical trial participant perception study

16 November 2020

Pioneering initiative will collect and share nationally data on clinical trial participants' perceptions throughout the United States. Wake Forest CTSI's Dr. Joseph Andrews says efforts are underway to improve clinical trials...

Communicating with study participants through your personal phone or computer?

28 October 2020

Working remotely has presented us all with new opportunities and challenges. One challenge that has impacted our clinical research activities has been the inability to make and receive phone calls to and from our study participants...

How Novo Nordisk and UNC Health are using N3C resources to accelerate research on COVID-19 and metabolic disease

11 November 2020

In this podcast, Novo Nordisk researcher Dr. Kajsa Kvist and Dr. John Buse from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discuss how and why Novo Nordisk became an early participant of the National COVID-19 Collaborative...

Working during COVID-19

19 October 2020

With a high level of coordination and discussion with her staff to minimize risk, Nilu Goonetilleke has kept her lab running during COVID-19. Like any good boss, Goonetilleke recognizes each member of her team has a...

NIH Announces new funding ops for early stage investigators and postdocs

11 November 2020

Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant The NIH announced a new funding opportunity, the Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed and R01 Basic...

Changing the Trajectory of HIV

19 October 2020

01 December 2016 | Lifestyle Working towards a cure for HIV requires many things – tenacity, determination, and collaboration. In the early 1980s, when a patient received a diagnosis of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus),...