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Up one levelStudy points to new uses, unexpected side effects of already-existing drugs
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 — Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco have developed and experimentally tested a technique to predict new target diseases for existing drugs.
Breast Cancer Research Foundation funds four at UNC Lineberger
Four faculty members from UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded yearlong grants from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF).
Clinical trial promotes new standards for colorectal cancer treatment
Monday, October 26, 2009 - In a review article published this month in The Oncologist, UNC’s Dr. Richard M. Goldberg and a team of colleagues catalogue how the data collected in a single large comparative clinical trial testing combination chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer has been used not only to benefit the patients that enrolled but also patients who subsequently developed the disease.
Messenger RNA with FLASH
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 - A study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has identified a key player in a molecular process essential for DNA replication within cells.
Moderate weight loss helps reduce risk of osteoarthritis in the knee
Monday Oct. 19, 2009 - Maintaining weight provides no benefit, UNC study shows
Scientists demonstrate link between genetic defect and brain changes in schizophrenia
Friday, Oct. 16, 2009 - Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have found that the 22q11 gene deletion – a mutation that confers the highest known genetic risk for schizophrenia – is associated with changes in the development of the brain that ultimately affect how its circuit elements are assembled.
Coach Williams Raises $1 Million For Cancer Research
Friday, October 16, 2009 — In just five years, Coach Roy Williams has raised more than $1 million for cancer research, treatment and prevention programs in our community. These funds have been raised through Coach Williams’ highly successful Fast Break Against Cancer event, which was launched in 2004. Coach Williams also directed half of the proceeds from the sold-out UNC Alumni Basketball game to support cancer research at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
UNC scientists win $1.6 million stimulus award to accelerate decoding of human genome
Thursday, October 15, 2009 — Their effort will be part of a consortium of investigators studying the human genome blueprint, titled the “ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements” (ENCODE). The consortium’s overall goal is to assemble a comprehensive catalog of functional elements in the human genome.
UNC researcher awarded grant for anti-diarrhea vaccine study in Nicaragua
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 — The grant was awarded to Sylvia Becker-Dreps, M.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor of family medicine in the UNC School of Medicine, who recently completed a National Research Service Award (NRSA) Primary Care Research Fellowship at UNC.