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Well Said: HIV research

06 June 2017

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...

Improving Clinical Trials Through Thoughtful Collaboration

31 May 2017

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 call for proposals

06 June 2017

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:...

From Engineering field comes doctor in the making

31 May 2017

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...

Payments linked to higher odds of doctors prescribing certain cancer drugs

06 June 2017

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...

CTTI's Registry Trials Recommendations now publicly available

30 May 2017

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...

In fruit fly and human genetics, timing is everything

06 June 2017

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...

CTTI describes keys to transforming clinical trials

30 May 2017

CTTI Points to Stakeholder Engagement, Data-Driven Insights as Keys to Transforming Clinical Trials An editorial appearing in the May 12th edition of Media Planet, a supplement of USA Today, describes the unique methods...

UNC IRB clarifies promotion guidelines for study listings

02 June 2017

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,...

Reducing cardiovascular risk for Hispanic Americans with type 2 diabetes

25 May 2017

Co-authored by Dr. Dan Reuland, Clinical Professor of Medicine (Division of General Medicine & Clinical Epidemiology), the results of a study funded through an NC TraCS – UNC CDTR pilot grant was recently published in The...