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NIH to limit the amount of grant money a scientist can receive

04 May 2017

US agency creates point system to address imbalance in distribution of research funds. For the first time, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will restrict the amount of funding that an individual scientist can hold...

CTSA PI from University of Wisconsin-Madison to lecture at UNC

25 April 2017

On Thursday May 18th at 4PM in Bondurant 2020, Marc Drezner, MD will be presenting a lecture entitled The PerPHEXing Cure of X-Linked Hypophosphatemia. Dr. Drezner’s pioneering work in the bone and mineral field led...

Duke to hold workshops on IND/IDE best practices

03 May 2017

Best Practices for the Preparation, Submission, and Maintenance of Sponsor-Investigator INDs and IDEs Presented by the Office of Regulatory Affairs and Quality, Duke University School of Medicine Location: Trent Semans...

UNC Horizons celebrates 23 years with new facility

20 April 2017

"We are not our disease": UNC Horizons celebrates 23 years of healing women and children with new facility UNC and surrounding communities gathered together on Wednesday to celebrate the grand opening of the new facility...

Triangle symposium calls for better head-to-head comparisons of health care services

03 May 2017

As health spending continues to rise to unprecedented levels — it now consumes one-quarter of the $3.7 trillion federal budget — everyone seems to have an opinion of what works and what doesn't in health care. But...

Ten-year study shows steady increase in type 1, 2 diabetes in U.S. youth

19 April 2017

The study found there was an average of 1.8 percent increase each year of youth with newly-diagnosed type 1 diabetes and an average of 4.8 percent per year increase of newly-diagnosed type 2 diabetes cases among the same population. A...

A true research university

02 May 2017

For the past 12 months, Kyle Wallace has been examining reconstructed ACLs in the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory to better understand how damage done during the reconstruction could lead to knee osteoarthritis. As...

Reimagining science education

19 April 2017

Feelin' DNA aims to inspire the visually impaired community by providing STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) teachers with 3-D models so they can incorporate them into their classrooms. The founder of the...

CTSA Program Mentoring Paves Way for Brain Cancer Therapy

27 April 2017

Shawn Hingtgen, Ph.D., sits in front of a fluorescent microscope that is used to examine stem cells in his laboratory. Hingtgen, a former CTSA Program KL2 scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is developing...

The Art of Mentorship

17 April 2017

In the last two years, Susan Girdler, PhD, and medical student Mary Shen have each been honored for their commitment to mentoring others. In conversation, the two discuss the importance of mentorship, supporting women in leadership,...