Category: Research

Please join us for a seminar celebrating the outstanding recipients of the 2024-25 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars Awards, including Jason Stein, PhD, associate professor of Genetics and member of the UNC Neuroscience Center and Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities.  These annual awards highlight the accomplishments of recently tenured SOM faculty...

On May 1, 2025, Joseph Piven, MD, the Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the UNC School of Medicine and director of the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (CIDD), was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Society for Autism Research. The award, the most prestigious honor in the...

Gabriel Dichter, Associate Director for Research at the CIDD, has been awarded an exploratory grant from NICHD to study linkages between brain functioning and the immune system in autism. The project builds on pilot data collected by Kaitlin Cummings, a clinical psychology graduate student in Dichter’s lab. In addition to...

The University of North Carolina has been awarded $2.2 million from the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau (HRSA MCHB) to be one of eleven National Transition for Youth with Autism (4 grants) and/or Epilepsy (7 grants) Demonstration Projects.  CIDD community members who contributed to the...

The late Phillip Hettleman, a member of the Carolina class of 1921, and his wife established the award in 1986 to recognize junior faculty members who demonstrate groundbreaking and innovative research along with future career promise. The recipients of the $8,000 prize will be honored at an upcoming Faculty Council...