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Center for Infectious Diseases
Administrative Offices Only - No Patients Access

CB# 7030
130 Mason Farm Road
2nd Floor Bioinformatics
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
T: (919) 966-2536
F: (919) 966-6714

 

UNC Infectious Diseases Clinic
For Patient Services and Care

101 Manning Drive
1st Floor Memorial Bldg.
Chapel Hill, NC  27514
T: (919) 966-7198
F: (919) 966-4587

 

Web master:
cfid@unc.edu

 
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Overview

The ID fellowship program at UNC offers a broad range of research and clinical opportunities, both local and international, all supported by nationally recognized faculty.
Here are some of the program's highlights:

  • More than 25 full-time attending faculty physicians who are conducting cutting-edge laboratory, clinical and epidemiological research supported by over $12 million in annual funding from the CDC, NIH, Agency for Health Care Research, and the Doris Duke and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations
  • Faculty research covering broad range of disciplines related to infectious diseases: clinical infectious disease, tropical medicine, emerging infections and biodefense, microbiology, immunology, biochemistry, epidemiology and health behavior.
  • A highly collaborative and interdisciplinary environment where infectious disease faculty engage in a host of projects with researchers in the schools of medicine, global public health, pharmacy, nursing and dentistry
  • The opportunity for fellows interested in laboratory careers to work with faculty who are conducting cutting edge, NIH-funded research on SARS, Avian influenza, HIV, KSHV, EBV, Yersinia, cryptococcus, TB, Dengue, malaria, trypansomiasis and innate immunity
  • A busy clinical service at UNC Hospitals, a public facility, providing treatment for the full range of infectious diseases, including a busy organ transplant service, the only burn center in the region, and a bone marrow transplant unit
  • State-of-the-art electronic medical records at UNC Hospitals, allowing for all clinical data and notes to be viewed and completed off site
  • Opportunities for general ID training in a busy community hospital and specialized STD and TB training at the Durham County Health Department
  • Two NIH training grants funded for 30 years
  • Recruitment based on academic potential, a consistent track record in placing graduates in academic or related professional jobs
  • Research programs in sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Russia, China, South America and the Caribbean with the option to complete fellowship training in Malawi
  • Convenient campus: all research labs, clinical research programs, faculty in the various schools, and UNC Hospitals are within two blocks of each other, a concrete expression of the cooperative nature of our program
  • Ability to obtain either a master’s or doctorate in public health (usually epidemiology)
  • Close cooperation with the NC Department of Health and Human Services and access to electronic files of reportable communicable diseases for research purposes
  • A collegial and lively weekly clinical case conference
  • An interactive weekly ID research conference presenting a broad range of topics from both local and national investigators
Breakthrough of the Year!

The HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 study, led by center director Myron S. Cohen, M.D., has been named the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science.