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Rethink the Strip: De-adoption of Glucose Monitoring for Non-Insulin Treated Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care

28 November 2018

Project Summary PCORI funds Dissemination and Implementation projects to increase awareness and promote the use of PCORI research findings to improve healthcare practices and health outcomes. This project is proposing to...

NC TraCS Award Announcements

12 November 2018

The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce awardees of TraCS $2K small grants for clinical and translational research projects. 6 applications were received and 3 (listed below) were chosen for funding, from the UNC-Chapel...

Biomedical Data Translator Consortium Announces Publication of Companion Pieces

20 November 2018

Prototype ‘Translator’ system shows promise and has garnered much enthusiasm roughly one year into feasibility assessment. The newly formed Biomedical Data Translator Consortium recently announced the release of two inaugural...

Institutional Junior Faculty Career Development Program Application Cycle Now Open

08 November 2018

TraCS announces the opening of the application cycle for the following institutional junior faculty (K) career development programs: - TraCS Gene Orringer KL2 Translational Research - BIRCWH Sex-Gender Differences in Health...

Funding Opportunities for Opioid Misuse (HEAL Initiative)

19 November 2018

Dear Investigator: The NIH has initiated an ‘all hands on deck’ approach to addressing opioid misuse and addiction. They have earmarked a significant amount of funding for this purpose through the HEAL initiative (Helping...

NIH HEAL Initiative: Program Update and Funding Opportunities for Pain Research Available through NIH

07 November 2018

Thursday, November 8, 2018 3:00-4:00 pm ET The National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative in April 2018 to accelerate scientific discovery to stem the opioid public...

Researchers Awarded $5.5M to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening in North Carolina

16 November 2018

UNC Lineberger researchers were awarded $5.5 million to increase colorectal cancer screening, follow-up, and care referrals in community health centers in North Carolina. Daniel S. Reuland, MD, MPH, leads UNC Lineberger's Carolina...

Retsch-Bogart honored at North American CF Conference

07 November 2018

CTRC Director George Retsch-Bogart, MD, received the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s 2018 Richard C. Talamo Distinguished Clinical Achievement Award. At the recent North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference in Denver, George...

Li, a TraCS $2K Recipient, Receives 2018 EMGS and PARE Awards

14 November 2018

Wentao Li, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Aziz Sancar, has received the 2018 Environmental Mutagenesis & Genomics Society (EMGS) New Investigator Travel Award & 2018 Postdoctoral Award for Research Excellence...

QUICK TAKE on recently published research: A Tale of Two EHRs

29 October 2018

Perhaps, like me, you're old enough to remember when doctors kept paper records to document your health and medical care (variously called a medical record, file or chart). I certainly remember those days... along with...

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