UNC School of Medicine News

• NCSU's sixth annual Krispy Kreme Challenge expects to draw 6,000 runners and raise more than $40,000 for N.C. Children's Hospital
  One hour. Four miles. Twelve doughnuts. 2400 calories. Tens of thousands of dollars for North Carolina Children's Hospital!
• Scientists map out regulatory regions of genome, hot spots for diabetes genes
  The research, published online Jan. 31, 2010, in the journal Nature Genetics, presents the first high-resolution atlas of these regulatory elements in the most studied cell type for treatment and prevention of type II diabetes.
• NC TraCS Institute at UNC joins first national research study recruitment registry
  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has joined more than 51 research institutions around the United States in making information about its clinical research trials available on ResearchMatch, the country’s first registry for recruiting research participants.
• UNC medical students hold memorial service for donated cadavers
  On Friday, Jan. 22, first-year medical students in the UNC School of Medicine held a memorial service for the cadavers donated to their anatomy class. More than 300 people attended the service, which is a long-standing tradition at UNC.
• North Carolina’s $49 million investment in tobacco reduction programs led to substantial health improvements from 2006-2009, UNC evaluation finds
  A comprehensive evaluation of North Carolina’s three major tobacco reduction programs from 2006-2009 concludes that they resulted in substantial reductions in tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure for youth, young adults and adults across the state. The program has also resulted in model policies the rest of the nation may now follow.

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