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Reprogrammed skin cells shrink brain tumors in mice

06 February 2018

Imagine cells that can move through your brain, hunting down cancer and destroying it before they themselves disappear without a trace. Scientists have just achieved that in mice, creating personalized tumor-homing...

UNC’s Largest-Ever Research Award Reaches $232 Million

26 January 2018

CHAPEL HILL, NC — One of the largest research awards made to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) just got bigger, making MEASURE Evaluation not only UNC's largest project in global health, but the largest...

The NIH visits NC TraCS

06 February 2018

In January, NC TraCS was visited by the NIH leaders from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS): Christopher P. Austin, MD, Director Michael Gregory Kurilla, MD, PhD, Clinical Innovation Director...

Congratulations to our TraCS colleague!

24 January 2018

The American Pharmacists Association has announced that Betsy Sleath, PhD is the recipient of the 2018 Research Achievement Award in the Pharmaceutical Sciences. The award recognizes and encourages outstanding, meritorious...

From Punnett Squares to Population Health

05 February 2018

Kristin Young, PhD KL2 scholar Kristin Young fell in love in high school, not with a boy, but with a discipline. The first time she learned about Punnett squares — those beautifully simple 4x4 grids that enable geneticists...

TraCS leadership and members among Creativity Hub semi-finalists

23 January 2018

In October 2017, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) launched Creativity Hubs in support of Chancellor Folt's Blueprint for Next. Creativity Hubs brings together investigators from across diverse disciplines,...

AHRQ NRSA application period open from Sheps

01 February 2018

The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research is pleased to continue to support pre- and postdoctoral fellowships in health services research and comparative effectiveness research. This training program has now...

Planning a multi-center trial or grant proposal?

17 January 2018

The Trial Innovation Network can help! The Trial Innovation Network (TIN) is a collaborative national network that focuses on innovation, excellence and collaboration, leveraging the expertise and resources of the CTSA...

Time may be short to secure PCORI funding

01 February 2018

PCORI will be accepting applications for new awards through the end of calendar year 2018, with dissemination awards through 2021. Congressional authorization for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Trust Fund,...

NIH Twitter Town Hall is today!

16 January 2018

Join over a dozen National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutes and Centers for a four-hour Twitter town hall on January 16th from 12:00-4:00 p.m. ET. The town hall will include a Periscope live video panel at 12:00,...