In December 2016, NCATS celebrates its fifth anniversary. The Center was officially established on Dec. 23, 2011, to transform the translational science process so that new treatments and cures for disease can be delivered...

Seth Noar, PhD, earns Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award for contributions to the field of health communication. UNC Lineberger's Seth Noar, PhD, presented with the Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award...

Francis Collins in his office at the National Institutes of Health. Jeffery DelViscio/STAT BETHESDA, Md. — At what was supposed to be the end of his tenure atop the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins is still...

Dr. Raj Panjabi — who graduated with Bachelor’s degrees in biochemistry and sociology from Carolina and is also a UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine graduate — has won the 2017 TED Prize, awarded annually to a leader...

Nearly one in six cancers diagnosed worldwide are attributable to a viral or bacterial infection. Galvanized by that statistic, researchers and clinicians attended the 2016 UNC-Duke Viral Oncology & AIDS Malignancy Symposium...

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kosorok elected AAAS fellowMichael R. Kosorok, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill biostatics professor, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s...

The Office of Minority Health has announced the release of a new resource to aid researchers: The Compendium of Publicly Available Datasets and Other Data-Related Resources. This is a free resource of publicly available...

When Jillian Lee Dempsey was interviewing for faculty positions across the country several years ago, she was thrilled to find that Carolina's senior faculty members were uniquely supportive of her. "They were invested in...

African-Americans often say no to clinical trials. Our reporter asked her mom 'Why?' All the big-name medicines you know about are tested for safety and effectiveness before they reach the pharmacy shelf. And before that —...

Effective Date: January 1, 2017 NIH has issued a policy on Good Clinical Practice training for NIH Awardees involved in NIH-funded clinical trials. This policy requires that PIs and clinical trial staff involved in all new...