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In honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Drs. Cindy Gay, Onyinye I. Iweala, Emily Sickbert-Bennett, and Ilona Jaspers share their journeys to success, challenges they faced along the way, and advice they’d like to give others. Read the full story here.

Michelle Hernandez, MD, and colleagues published in Health Affairs using the analogy of a watershed to explain the primary care system and how the pandemic has adversely affected its Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs), a vital infrastructure that provides the capacity to assess and improve health outcomes where most people receive...

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated a critical need to establish a pre-emptive stockpile of tangible immunobiological countermeasures to accelerate the response to potential pandemic threats. To address this need, Matthew Vogt, MD, PhD, and Michelle Hernandez, MD, have established a pandemic response repository through microbial and immunological surveillance and epidemiology...

Richard C. Boucher, MD, was consulted for an article in Newsweek about COVID-19 nose-only masks for that are emerging in South Korea. The masks are intended to allow wearers to eat and drink while keeping their noses covered. Read the full story here.

UNC researchers — among them Marsico Lung Institute’s Jonathan Fay, PhD — optimized the function of a microscope for cryogenic electron microscopy (CryoEM) to maximize the throughput and performance of the microscope housed in the UNC Chapel Hill Cryo-EM Core Facility. This method development is demonstrated successful for structural studies...

The UNC Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology, led by Ilona Jaspers, PhD, was awarded an EPA cooperative agreement for $4.5 million over three years. Read the full story here.

Timothy Moran, MD, PhD, is a recent recipient of the NIEHS Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award. The objective of this 5-year, $2.68 million R01 research grant is to investigate how the indoor environment impacts peanut allergy development in children. Read the full story here.

Matthew Wolfgang, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and a member of the Marsico Lung Institute, has been granted a UNC Creativity Hubs Pilot Pre-Proposal Award by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Funding will support the further development of Dr. Wolfgang’s team science proposal as it...

Cosmos, a website dedicated to the science of everything, posted a top ten list of the best science videos of 2021, and coming in at number seven is a video of cellular movement from research in the labs of Klaus Hahn and Tim Elston, both in the UNC Department of...

The Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture 2021 was delivered by Craig A. Fletcher, DVM, PhD, on the topic of animal models of disease that are utilized by UNC. The video of Dr. Fletcher’s lecture can be viewed here. Read more about the Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture series here.