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UNC, NC State and Duke collaborate on high tech cancer treatments

04 October 2017

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...

Wake Forest CTSI hosts Mucosal Immunology Symposium

27 September 2017

The Wake Forest Clinical and Translational Science Institute is sponsoring a symposium on October 11th, 2017 entitled: Mucosal Immunology Research using the Nonhuman Primate Model. The event will take place at Wake Forest...

TraCS collaborates with NC State on Hospital Infant Bassinet Project

04 October 2017

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...

Senate panel blocks NIH from revising translational research awards

27 September 2017

A congressional spending panel has backed scientists running a $516 million network of bench-to-bedside research centers in their fight with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, over how it manages...

NC State awarded grant to advance America's bioeconomy

04 October 2017

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...

Celebrating sustainability at Carolina

27 September 2017

Three Zeros is Carolina's initiative to reduce the campus' environmental footprint through three overarching sustainability goals: net zero water usage, zero waste to landfills and net zero greenhouse gas emissions. ...

Congrats to Hettleman Prize award winners

02 October 2017

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...

School of Nursing hosts seminar on cancer screening

25 September 2017

UNC School of Nursing: RSC and T32 Seminar Series "Intervention Mapping: Designing Interventions to Increase Cancer Screening" Please join us for a presentation by Dr. Maria Fernandez, international expert on Intervention...

CTSA program collaboration aims to improve brain cancer drug testing

29 September 2017

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...

UNC, Duke, Wake Forest, and RTI launch regulatory website

21 September 2017

The new ReGARDD.org website (hosted and maintained by affiliates at UNC, Duke, Wake Forest, and RTI) shares current best practices for preparing IND and IDE submissions to the FDA. The ReGARDD team is comprised of regulatory...