Ashley Henderson, MD, has been consulted for ABC11 and FOX29 news stories that highlight the milestone of UNC Health having zero COVID-19 patients for a 36-hour period, the longest span in over a year. Read the ABC11 story, “UNC Health reaches milestone of zero COVID patients for 36-hour span,” here. Read the FOX29 story, “Some … Read more
The UNC School of Medicine lab of Mehmet Kesimer, PhD, discovered MUC5AC is more reliably associated with the manifestation of COPD than another well-known mucus protein, revealing a possible biomarker of disease initiation, prognosis, and therapeutic effectiveness. The results of their study, in a paper first-authored by Giorgia Radicioni, PhD, have been published in Lancet Respiratory … Read more
David Peden, MD, has been consulted for a number of news stories focusing on UNC research to understand allergic reactions to some COVID-19 vaccines. The stories and accompanying videos can be found at the links below. Fox 8: What’s causing allergic reactions to some COVID-19 vaccines? UNC working on an answer CBS 17: What’s causing … Read more
A study led by Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, associate professor of infectious diseases at the UNC School of Medicine and director of UNC Medical Center Infection Prevention, and William D. Bennett, PhD, professor of medicine in the UNC Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology, shows that wearing two masks can significantly increase the effectiveness … Read more
A SARS-CoV-2 image produced by Camille Ehre, PhD, and published in The New England Journal of Medicine has been featured in an article in The Well. The article, “Antiviral proves effective at preventing and treating COVID-19,” can be read here. Referred to in the article is a paper recently published in Nature, “SARS-CoV-2 infection is effectively … Read more
Michael R. Knowles, MD, has been consulted for an article in the Canadian Insider entitled “EmitBio Announces Positive Clinical Results Supporting a Novel Therapeutic for COVID-19.” The article can be read here.
National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, wrote in his blog this week about stunning SARS-CoV-2 images taken by the lab of Camille Ehre, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Marsico Lung Institute. Read the article here, and read the blog post from Dr. Collins here.
Ilona Jaspers, PhD, and other UNC researchers have been featured in a short documentary by Retro Report Scientific American about the marketing of electronic cigarettes to teens and young adults. Watch video here.
Michelle Hernandez, MD, associate professor in the UNC Department of Pediatrics, has been elected Secretary of the Environmental & Occupational Respiratory Diseases (EORD) Interest Section of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Read the full story here.
Led by Meghan Rebuli, PhD, and Ilona Jaspers, PhD, UNC School of Medicine, researchers found that vaping electronic cigarettes could impair the body’s normal immune response to viral infections. Read the full story here, and read the paper in American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology here.