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 forms. Among the featured researchers … Read more

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 care. Read the full story … Read more

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 (PREMISE) initiative. Read the full … Read more

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 of GPCRs, a large group … Read more

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 advances to the next stage … Read more