Louise Henderson
Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C)
Title: Southeastern Consortium for Lung Cancer Health Equity
Site: Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical University of South Carolina and UNC
Goal: To build on the long-standing community outreach and engagement efforts to develop culturally-sensitive, community-informed interventions aimed at reducing lung cancer disparities and increasing lung cancer screening rates
11 months ago
Eran Dayan, PhD, Awarded Grant for Work with Parkinson’s Disease
Congratulations to Dr. Eran Dayan on receiving an RO2 grant from (NICHD) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. They are providing funding ($404,276) for his project “Targeted Motor Learning to Improve Gait for Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease.” Over the 2-year lifespan (05/01/2023 – 04/30/2025) of this project, Dayan will serve …
11 months ago
Dr. Hong Yuan awarded S10 Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Hong Yuan, Director of the BRIC Small Animal Imaging facility, on her awarded S10 Grant for her project entitled, “Preclinical Vevo-F2 ultrasound imaging system for Small Animal Imaging core facility.” This $490K grant funds the installation of a preclinical ultrasound imaging system in BRIC’s Small Animal Imaging core facility. The new system …
1 year ago
Autism Research Center Awards $25K Pilot Grants to Three Interdisciplinary Research Projects
The Autism Research Center awarded three $25,000 pilot grants to several UNC School of Medicine faculty members on three interdisciplinary research projects, including one titled Developing brain-wide CSF flow imaging for infants at likelihood for autism, to BRIC faculty member and director of the Small Animal MRI facility Dr. Ian Shih in collaboration with Drs. …