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Core Facilities 2018 Summer newsletter released

27 August 2018

UNC Office of Research Technologies has published its summer newsletter featuring updates from the research core facilities. The UNC School of Medicine currently houses more than 50 research core facilities. These core...

TraCS-funded research: lung cancer screening

21 August 2018

Doctor-patient discussions neglect potential harms of lung cancer screening, study finds UNC Lineberger researchers led by Daniel Reuland, MD, MPH, report in JAMA Internal Medicine that their analysis of 14 audio-recorded...

NIH Announcement on Protecting the Integrity of US Biomedical Research

27 August 2018

NIH announced August 23 in a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing and a press release its intentions to encourage awardee institutions to participate in protecting the integrity of US biomedical...

Helping Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Improve Blood Sugar Control

21 August 2018

This PCORI-funded project, which included CaSE team member Dr. Katrina Donahue, aimed to determine whether daily self-monitoring of blood sugar levels improves blood sugar control and quality of life for patients with type...

Highlights from the Spring 2018 Informatics Showcase, Part 2

27 August 2018

Well, we're back after our brief (non-)commercial break! Are you ready to explore some more informatics projects with me? Then get ready as we dive back in with our bite-size summaries of the final three project presentations…and...

Research Files

Highlights from the Spring 2018 Informatics Showcase, Part 1

15 August 2018

I started in my role with the Communications Team here at NC TraCS with little to no understanding of 'Informatics' other than a vague association of the term with both information and technology. It would be stretching the...

Research Files

Multi-institutional Workshop Identifies the "Known Unknowns" of Opioid Crisis

21 August 2018

In a quote that has been repeated so often that it has almost become cliché, Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld once answered a question about weapons of mass destruction by saying, "There are known knowns; there are things...

Funding Opportunity: 2018 Million Dollar Bike Ride Pilot Grant Program

14 August 2018

The Orphan Disease Center at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the 2018 Million Dollar Bike Ride Pilot Grant Program. The program is now open and offering 39 different research grant opportunities focusing...

The ABCs of DSMBs: CTSA Program hubs work together to produce much-needed training manual

21 August 2018

"By combining expertise from so many different organizations, we were able to truly address universal concepts and make a resource that's applicable to a wide range of scientists and researchers" - Tamsin Knox, associate director...

UNC Health Care site of Adaptable study exceeds enrollment target

14 August 2018

Enrollment of UNC Health Care System (UNCHCS) patients into the multi-site Aspirin Dosing: A Patient-centric Trial Assessing Benefits and Long-Term Effectiveness (ADAPTABLE) study has reached 581 participants, exceeding the...

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