Category: News

Cynthia M. Powell, MD, professor of pediatrics and genetics in the UNC School of Medicine, is Early Check Lead Investigator for the team from UNC. Early Check, a new research study, led by RTI International and a group of distinguished partners, is now available for newborn babies in North Carolina. Early Check...

UNC’s Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute is pleased to announce their 2018-2019 lecture series, “Child Development in a Global Context: Integrating Developmental Science and Implementation Science to Enhance Child Wellbeing.” Read more >>

Preliminary safety and efficacy data from the first-ever trial studying an in vivo genome editing therapy have been presented by Joseph Muenzer, MD, PhD, at the 2019 Annual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism this week in Athens, Greece. Muenzer, a Professor of Pediatric Genetics and...

Michelle Hernandez, MD, associate medical director of the N.C. Children’s Allergy & Asthma Center, led a study that followed 23 asthma patients in North Carolina to show that even with optimized treatment for persistent asthma, patients experienced respiratory and systemic effects from exposure to low levels of ozone. Read more >>

Ilona Jaspers, PhD, was recently interviewed by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for their podcast, “Environmental Health Chat” about e-cigarettes, their popularity among teenagers and why researchers and health professionals are concerned. This podcast is part of an ongoing series by the NIEHS, “Partnerships for Environmental Public Health,”...