In the first large pragmatic trial of its kind in the United States, results from a UNC School of Medicine study show that checking finger-stick blood sugars may not help diabetes patients who do not use insulin. Chapel Hill,...

CHAPEL HILL, NC — Every animal starts as a clump of cells, which over time multiply and mature into many different types of cells, tissues, and organs. This is fundamental biology. Yet, the details of this process remain...

UNC Lineberger Director Norman E. Sharpless, MD, is being considered as the next director of the nation's top cancer agency. CHAPEL HILL, NC — President Donald Trump today announced his intent to appoint Norman...

New UNC SOP guidelines effective June 2, 2017 require a change to the Join the Conquest study listing form approval for the compensation section only. Per UNC IRB SOP 2.4.10.1 "… In keeping with the DHHS and FDA guidance,...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is home to some of the world's best HIV research. Numerous teams of researchers are tirelessly investigating the virus, which infects nearly 37 million people around the world. One...

While clinical trials can lead to many medical breakthroughs, they’re often weighed down by inefficiency and red tape. To fix the system, we need to reach across fields. Many have called for major improvements in clinical...

NSF Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs: Establishing Spokes to Advance Big Data Applications (BD Spokes) Limited Submission Internal Call for Proposals Internal Due Date: Friday June 30, 2017 NSF Full Proposal Deadline:...

First-year UNC medical student and Albert Schweitzer fellow Vinayak Subramanian works with UNC REX cardiologist George Adams to improve the care of patients with peripheral artery disease, a condition that is not well understood. Vinayak...

In preliminary findings that will be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting 2017 in Chicago on Saturday, June 3, researchers show that when physicians had to choose between multiple, on-patent...

Recommendations from the Registry Trials Project were publicly announced last week in a CTTI-hosted webinar. The recommendations describe how to design new registries or evaluate and modify existing registries to conduct clinical...