Category: News

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.

Jim Hagood, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, and Ronit Freeman, PhD, Associate Professor in Applied Physical Science, have been awarded a grant by Eshelman Institute for Innovation to pursue research in lung fibrosis. Read the full story here.

This new method, created by the UNC School of Medicine labs of Klaus Hahn and Tim Elston, has the potential to super-charge the study of human proteins as they interact and change their conformations in fundamentally important ways in human health and disease. Read the full story here.

The paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Jerome Carpenter, PhD, Mehmet Kesimer, PhD, et al has been profiled by RT Magazine and by the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) on their respective websites. The paper elucidates the molecular intricacies of mucus and...

James Hagood, MD, and Richard Boucher, MD, are leading a multinational project funded through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) to research “how the cells lining, the nose, mouth, and airways as well as the associated fluids interact to maintain respiratory health or play a role in diseases throughout childhood.” Read...

In honor of Hispanic Heritage month, WRAL-TV features Michelle Hernandez, MD, professor in the UNC Department of Pediatrics and director of the N.C. Child Health Research Network. Read the full article here.

The UNC School of Medicine lab of Mehmet Kesimer, PhD, has further illuminated the molecular intricacies of mucus and its role in pulmonary diseases, laying more groundwork for better therapies for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other airway conditions. The findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy...