The UNC site lead investigators are Edwin Kim, MD, associate professor of medicine, division chief of UNC Pediatric Allergy & Immunology, and Corinne Keet, MD, PhD, professor of pediatrics, vice chair of clinical and translational research.

Eveline Wu, MD, MSCR, Associate Professor and Division Chief of Pediatric Rheumatology in the Department of Pediatrics, is one of 14 researchers nationwide selected to receive the award this year.

This five-year grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is led by Toni Darville, MD, director of the UNC Children’s Research Institute, in collaboration with scientists at Vaxcyte, Inc. and the University of Chicago.

Camilia Kamoun, MD, Assistant Professor in Pediatric Endocrinology, was recently awarded a grant by the Greenwall Foundation through its Making a Difference Program, in the amount of $240,272 in support of her project, “Moving Away from Race-Ethnicity Based Clinical Care of Early Female Puberty Towards Race and Ethnicity Conscious Puberty Justice”.

At PAS 2024, the NEC Society awarded the Early Career Research Award to Lauren Frazer, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. The $5,000 Research Award opportunity is open to early career faculty physicians (within 5 years of fellowship completion) whose primary research aligns with the NEC Research Priorities. The award will help to support promising NEC research being … Read more