The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks second in the United States in the 2020 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, which measure sustainability among institutions of higher education. The 2020 rankings, released April 22, placed Carolina at 22nd overall in the world out of 766 institutions from 85 countries, an improvement from our rank as 24th in the inaugural Impact Rankings in 2019.

UNC is the highest-rated university in the United States for coronavirus research, according to a recent ranking by Microsoft Academic. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and since, UNC-Chapel Hill researchers have published more peer-reviewed articles and have been cited more than any other academic institution in the United States.

Working remotely from their home offices, the University’s librarians are helping the world’s virologists fight coronavirus by making faculty research more accessible online through the Carolina Digital Repository. The coronavirus example shows how valuable a reliable open access source can be for researchers. During the pandemic, “Researchers have identified and shared hundreds of viral genome sequences. More than 200 clinical trials...

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BCBP faculty member, Ron Swanstrom, is working together with other School of Medicine researchers across disciplines, to combat the COVID-19 virus. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has swept through the entire world, causing thousands of deaths and life-altering changes in our communities. Within the UNC School of Medicine research …

Guochun Jiang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the HIV Cure Center received a Traditional CFAR Developmental Award for the project “HIV reservoirs in the central nervous system.” Congratulations Dr. Jiang!

A look at how Carolina’s faculty and students are responding to remote teaching and learning in the first few days.

Liu’s lab focuses on focuses on deciphering signaling events that drive cancer development, with the goal of developing new biomarkers for patient selection and identifying drug targets and potential therapeutics.

Congratulations to Wolfgang Bergmeier, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, in collaboration with a multi-institutional team, for publishing article in the journal Science Advances. Dr. Bergmeier and the team explain why platelet responses are associated with organ injury and mortality after cardiac surgeries and how platelets cause local and systemic inflammation via mast cell …

COVID-19 has challenged our campus community in many ways. Among the challenges facing instructors is making the sudden, unanticipated shift to using remote instructional tools and methods. This site provides resources, advice, and ways of finding help in making that transition. This is a very active site, with new content appearing daily, so we invite …

JTH cover photo March 2020 Bergmeier and Campbell lab JTH

Campbell and Bergmeier labs collaborative research featured on the cover of the March 2020 issue of the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (JTH)!

On March 1, 2020, Robert Lee, Ph.D. was promoted to Research Assistant Professor. His research is centered around platelet signaling and function.

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Carolina Ranks 2nd in US, 22nd in World in 2020 ‘Times Higher Education’ Impact Rankings

UNC Ranked Highest U.S. University in Coronavirus Research

Disseminating Coronavirus Research

UNC SOM Support Exchange: Request help or offer assistance to SOM community members in need

Meet UNC School of Medicine’s COVID-19 Research Heroes

Jiang received 2020 Center for AIDS Research Developmental Award

Remote learning begins with successes, surprises

Breast Cancer Alliance awards Liu 2020 Young Investigator grant

Wolfgang Bergmeier, Ph.D., in Collaboration With A Multi-Institutional Team, Publish In Science Advances

UNC launches new website: Keep Teaching COVID-19 Information & Resources for Faculty

Campbell and Bergmeier labs collaborative research makes cover of JTH!

Robert Lee PhD promoted to Research Assistant Professor