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NIH opens nationwide enrollment for huge precision medicine initiative

02 May 2018

WASHINGTON — A massive precision medicine initiative that has been years in the making from the National Institutes of Health is being rolled out at last. The All of Us initiative, which will be launched on May 6, aims to...

NEW: Join the Conquest (JTC) Researcher Dashboard is HERE!

19 April 2018

Do you currently have a study listed on the NC TraCS Join the Conquest (JTC) website? Do you plan to list a study, or more studies, in the future? The NEW Join the Conquest (JTC) Researcher Dashboard is here!...

Congrats to Dr. Kappelman of TraCS Community Engagement Service

02 May 2018

PCORI Board approves funding to promote research partnerships between PCORnet and outside organizations WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved...

Improving Methods for Conducting PCOR to be released June 1

19 April 2018

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) will be releasing the “Improving Methods for Conducting PCOR” funding announcement on June 1, 2018. PCORI seeks to fund projects that address important methodological...

New clues to genetics of depression are ‘game-changing’

02 May 2018

Researchers have identified 44 genomic variants, or loci, with a statistically significant association with depression. The meta-analysis involves research with more than 135,000 people with major depression and more than 344,000...

Microbes, metals, and malignancy

17 April 2018

Janelle C. Arthur, PhD When immunologist Janelle Arthur was training as a postdoc at UNC nearly a decade ago, she proposed a project looking at how a Western diet – rich in salt, fat, and red meat – might increase the risk...

UNC-Chapel Hill and partners awarded $58.1 million to accelerate research discoveries

24 April 2018

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded $58.1 million from the National Institutes of Health to renew its five-year Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program to help improve the health...

Science & Society workshop series at UNC tomorrow

11 April 2018

Advances in technology and online information sharing have led to increased public access to scientific information – both credible and not – and to the proliferation of highly sophisticated efforts to deliberately misinform...

Today's your day to ask Francis Collins anything

20 April 2018

Have a burning question for the NIH director? Here's your chance to ask. Francis Collins is hosting an Ask Me Anything chat, or AMA, on Reddit at 2 p.m. EST today. Before he ran the NIH, Collins played a critical role...

Join us Apr 13 to learn about the new Research Coordination and Management Unit

04 April 2018

NC TraCS April CTSA Conversation Session: What is the NEW Research Coordination and Management Unit (RCMU) and how can it support your research? Date/Time: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am Location: Brinkhous-Bullitt,...