Author Archives: ecroe

M. Bradley Drummond, MD, was consulted for a WRAL article about the Carolina Stress Initiative, which seeks to address the mental stress of caring for COVID-19 patients. The article, “Carolina Stress Initiative recruiting health care workers for study to develop better mental health therapies,” can be found here.

David Peden, MD, past president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, will serve as the academy’s first editor-in-chief of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global. Read the full story here.

Ilona Jaspers, PhD, and Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, share their responses to the terms of e-cigarette manufacturer Juul Labs’ settlement in a lawsuit from North Carolina’s attorney general. Read their opinions here on what this means for the state and the future of youth vaping.

The Society’s Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture is a prestigious biennial lecture, awarded to distinguished physiologists working outside the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. Read the fully story here.

Scientists led by UNC School of Medicine researchers Silvia Kreda, PhD, and Rudolph Juliano, PhD, created an improved oligonucleotide therapy strategy with the potential for treating other pulmonary diseases, such as COPD and asthma. Read the full story here.

A study by the Kesimer lab published in Lancet Respiratory Medicine has been profiled in a WRAL TechWire article, “Elevated level of lung protein could be early predictor for COPD, UNC says.” Mehmet Kesimer, PhD, is the study’s senior author, and the lead author is Giorgia Radicioni, PhD. The WRAL article...

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....

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,...

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...

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...