Carolina has launched "For All Kind: the Campaign for Carolina," an ambitious fundraising drive that seeks to raise $4.25 billion over the next five years. Chancellor Carol L. Folt, along with Board of Trustees...

How beagles and goldens could help researchers find the next cancer therapy for humans DAVIS, Calif. — Radiation oncologist Dr. Michael Kent desperately wants to beat cancer. He's testing the latest high-tech treatments in...

A person struggles, then panics, gasping for air but unable to get any into the lungs — as if "I were trying to breathe air underwater" or "an elephant is sitting on my chest." Those are the most common analogies cited...

News from the Gillings School of Global Public Health... Hospital Infant Bassinet project PI Dr. Kristin Tully returned from her maternity leave with her baby Bethany after they personally experienced the stand-alone bassinet...

Gaurav Dave, MD, PhD, MPH, research assistant professor has been named Associate Director of The Center for Health Equity Research (CHER). Gaurav Dave, MD, DrPH, MPH, is the new Associate Director for CHER. His long-standing...

Congratulations to our partner, NC State, for receiving a 2.7M grant from the USDA. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced six grants totaling nearly $21.1...

Andrew Hinton was working in the shipyards around Norfolk, Virginia, when his young daughter was diagnosed with severe food allergies. That diagnosis, as stressful as it was, gave him the passion to change the course of his...

Four highly promising Carolina faculty members in diverse fields have been awarded the Philip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty. The recipients, who were recognized at the...

From the Daily Tarheel... Photo courtesy of Ross Boyce, studying malaria. Innovation is alive and well in the research endeavors by UNC professors. From a skin patch that dissolves fat, a rapid diagnostic test for malaria...

A human brain tumor mass (green) that has been engrafted into and is actively growing within a rat brain slice explant. The red immunostaining shows the resident microglial immune cells of the rat brain tissue starting to...