Trainees in the news

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2/2011

Rita-Marie T. Woodford was awarded the Turner Award from the North Carolina section of the American Association for Dental Research for her research talk at the 2011 UNC Dental Research and Review Day.  Her research is concerning the role of inflammation in anti-cancer vaccines.

11/1/2010
Katherine Horvath, a Translational Medicine Trainee in the 2007 cohort, was awarded a Graduate Education Advancement Board (GEAB) Impact Award for her research on the effect of cigarette smoke on immune responses. The award, sponsored by the Graduate School’s external advancement board of private citizens, recognizes outstanding graduate student research of particular benefit to North Carolina.

Katie will share her research during the Graduate School’s Annual Student Recognition Celebration on April 6, 2011, in the George Watts Hill Alumni Center. She and the other Impact awardees will have the opportunity to present their research to the campus community, state legislators, and others who will be attending.

Katie joins other trainees who have won Impact awards including Kate Hamilton (2010) and Rupan Sandhu (2008).

12/2009
Trainees interviewed by Science Magazine

A translational research collaboration between Dr. Barb Vilen and Dr. Robert Roubey was spotlighted in a December 2009 article in Science magazine's online clinical and translational science network, CTSciNet.  Shannon Jones and Amanda Wisz, two trainees in the Program in Translational Medicine, were both interviewed in the piece.  Click here to read the article.

10/2009
HHMI funding extended for another 4 years

UNC's Program in Translational Medicine was recently awarded an additional 4 years of funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.  Our program was one of only 23 programs nationwide chosen for funding.  Please click here to read the press release announcing the award on the HHMI website.  The UNC press release can be read here.  Thank you to our oustanding trainees and dedicated preceptors and clinical mentors for giving the Program in Translational Medicine a national reputation of excellence.