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Funding Opportunity: SOM/NC TraCS Emerging Challenges in Biomedical Research

13 January 2017

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...

AHEC Campus Innovation Grants 2017-2018

09 January 2017

We are pleased to announce the 3rd year of the AHEC Campus Innovation Grants for our UNC-Chapel Hill academic partners. As with previous awards, the purpose of these grants is to promote innovation in education within AHEC’s...

The first sights babies see sculpt the brain’s visual circuitry

12 January 2017

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...

Helping solve a health care shortage

09 January 2017

Less than a year after she earned her degree from Carolina, Misty Cox is already putting her skills to work — and helping make North Carolinians healthier in the process. Cox, a 2016 UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, is one of 13 fellows...

Oliver Smithies, PhD dies at age 91

11 January 2017

Oliver Smithies, PhD, the Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, has died at age 91. He is survived by his wife, Nobuyo Madea, PhD, Robert H. Wagner...

New HHS rule and NIH policy affecting clinical trials

06 January 2017

DHHS and the NIH have released a new regulation and policy that affect registration and results reporting for clinical trials. The DHHS regulation, known as the Final Rule, describes requirements for registering and submitting...

Congrats to Clayton Somers

09 January 2017

Somers appointed to newly created vice chancellor for public affairs post The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has named Clayton Somers, a longtime North Carolina attorney, executive leader and state government...

Funding Opportunity: pilot project with surplus CC mice

05 January 2017

UNC Office of Research offers a call for pilot project proposals that will use surplus CC mice The Collaborative Cross (CC) is a unique UNC resource consisting of a mouse multiparent population derived from eight inbred...

Personalized Medicine Conference for Pharmacists March 4

09 January 2017

Personalized Medicine utilizes the genetics of an individual (or in cancer the genetics of a patient’s tumor) to predict if the patient is likely to have an adverse drug response or whether the drug may actually be useful to...

Funding Opportunity: Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust

04 January 2017

The Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust (KBR) is accepting proposals in four areas of the Health Care Division’s Issue Areas: Access to Primary Care; Community Centered Prevention; Diabetes; and, Behavioral Health. Proposals...