New Appendix policy for NIH/AHRQ/NIOSH Applications submitted for Due Dates On or After January 25, 2017 This Notice reminds the scientific research community of the recent policy for allowable Appendix materials in applications...

Spring 2017 research Programming for the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) is now open to registration. PI Development Series— The PI Development Series introduces PIs to an array of helpful topics relating to their...

Join Duke at noon on January 25, 2017 for the quarterly CTSI Virtual Town Hall. This quarter, we will hear perspectives on the future of clinical research from Duke faculty and staff who participated in the November 2016...

Harvard University’s CTSA is offering an opportunity for non-Harvard faculty and staff to participate in an online course, Fundamentals of Clinical and Translational Research (FaCToR). Applications are due by January 25,...

Researchers transforming animals with the latest genome-engineering tools may be disappointed by draft rules released by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on 18 January — two days before US President Barack Obama leaves...

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University already were ahead of the curve in 2003. With technology playing a greater role in medicine every day, it only made sense to combine Carolina's...

EMERGING CHALLENGES IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH (ECBR)REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Winter 2017 Challenge: Research relevant to Alzheimer’s disease The School of Medicine’s Office of Research is partnering with NC TraCS to solicit...

Ronald Falk, MD, Chairman of the Department of Medicine has announced that Gerald Hladik, MD, has been appointed Chief of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension.Hladik is the Doc J. Thurston Distinguished Professor of...

When a newborn baby opens her eyes, she does not see well at all. It can take months for her world to come into focus. Now scientists have found more clues about what happens in the brains of baby mammals as they try to make...