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Black and Latinx patients who used an inhaled glucocorticoid as needed along with usual care had improved asthma outcomes, according to results from a PREPARE, PeRson EmPowered Asthma RElief, trial. Michelle Hernandez, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, was the UNC School of Medicine principal investigator and worked with the study lead,...

The Translational Team Science Awards (TTSA) program is aimed at capitalizing on UNC-Chapel Hill’s culture of collaboration and fostering interdisciplinary teams of basic science and clinical investigators. We are pleased to announce that one of the three teams receiving the TTSA Phase 1 Award for 2021-22 consists of the Marsico...

An article posted on Healio, entitled “Experts debate whether peanut sensitization can occur through the respiratory tract,” details studies done by Timothy P. Moran, MD, PhD, to investigate peanut allergies and sensitization via respiratory routes. Read the full article here.

Researchers across UNC-Chapel Hill are using advanced imaging technologies and techniques to improve our understanding of cellular processes — with visually stunning results. Collected from a variety of labs, these images showcase the incredible projects our researchers are working on and the beauty of the human body in all its...

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.