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Category: Infectious Diseases

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    ViiV Healthcare, UNC-Chapel Hill announce five-year, $20 million renewal of HIV cure partnership

    David Margolis, MD, Director of the UNC HIV Cure Center (Credit: Jon Gardiner) This unique public-private collaboration provides funding for HIV Cure Center and Qura Therapeutics, the joint venture that brings academic and pharmaceutical research scientists together for the goal of curing people with HIV. David Margolis, MD, is the director of the UNC Cure Center. “Without the Qu … Read more

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    IHQI Improvement Scholars Announced, Five in Medicine

    Mildred Kwan The Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement (IHQI) has announced projects that will be supported through IHQI’s Improvement Scholars Program. Half of these scholars are members of the UNC Department of Medicine, and they include the following.   Mildred Kwan, MD PhD, with lead Renae Boerneke, PharmD, BCPS, CPP — Reducing the Healthcare Utilization of Broad … Read more

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    Physician Resources: Weber Responds to COVID-19 Questions

    David Weber, MD, MPH David J. Weber, MD, MPH, medical director of infection prevention at UNC Hospitals responds to common questions physicians have about COVID-19. Listen here. UNC Health is following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for COVID-19 and points to the CDC website for Healthcare Professionals for answers to general questions.   … Read more

  • David Weber, MD, MPH

    Weber Interviewed by NC Health News, Discusses COVID-19 Preparations

    David Weber, MD, MPH In “What’s it Like to Get the Coronavirus,” UNC Department of Medicine’s David Weber, MD, MPH, describes worst-case scenario plans under consideration with healthcare teams at UNC Medical Center. Read the NC Health News article here. Weber is professor of medicine and pediatrics, and a professor of epidemiology in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Heal … Read more

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    Boyce Receives Emerging Challenges Grant With Jones and Scribner

    Ross Boyce, MD, MSc Ross Boyce, MD, MSc, assistant professor in the division of infectious diseases–with lead investigator Corbin Jones, PhD, professor in the integrative program for biological and genome sciences and the department of biology, and Dan Schrider, PhD, assistant professor in the department of genetics–have received a 2019 Emerging Challenges in Biomedical Researc … Read more

  • David Weber, MD, MPH

    Is NC Ready for Coronavirus? Weber Recalls SARS Outbreak in NC Health News Story

    David Weber, MD, MPH, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases and epidemiology with the Gillings School of Global Public Health, recalls North Carolina’s SARS case in 2003, explaining how the emergence of diseases like H1N1, West Nile Virus, Ebola, Zika and multiple flu seasons, has kept colleagues practicing and preparing for inevitabilities like COVID-19.

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    $4.5M Grant to Boost Antimicrobial Resistance Efforts in Malawi

    Irving Hoffman, PA, MPH The Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and UNC Project-Malawi were awarded a $4.5 million grant by the UK’s Fleming Fund to strengthen Malawi’s One Health Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) program.  The grant will support the national AMR coordination committee and technical working groups, supporting ownership and alignment and scaling up a … Read more

  • David Weber, MD, MPH

    Weber Discusses Flu in Associated Press Article

    David Weber, MD, MPH David Weber, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, pediatrics and epidemiology, was interviewed in an AP article about the second wave of flu, amid concerns about the coronavirus. The article recognizes that the second surge began in late January, and that there is now another rise in the percentage of doctor’s office visits that w … Read more

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    Six Medicine Faculty Recognized for Highly Cited Research

    The annual list of highly cited researchers from Thomson Reuters recognizes the most influential researchers of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers than rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science. In 2019, fewer than 6,300, or .1% of the world’s researchers, across 21 research fields, have earned this exclusive … Read more

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    Weber Answers Questions About the Coronavirus

    David Weber, MD, MPH In a new UNC Health Talk article, David Weber, MD, MPH, answers questions about the coronavirus, encourages the flu vaccine and recognizes respiratory etiquette. Weber is professor of medicine and pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine and professor of epidemiology at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. He’s also medical director of hospital epidem … Read more

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    Researchers Reverse HIV Latency, Important Scientific Step Toward Cure

    (Republished from the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health Care Newsroom) From left: UNC-Chapel Hill HIV researchers David Margolis, MD, and J. Victor Garcia, PhD, along with Rick Dunham from ViiV Healthcare. (Credit: Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill) Approximately 38 million people are infected with HIV worldwide, about 1.1 million people in the United States. Currently, people wit … Read more

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    Six Medicine Faculty Recognized for Highly Cited Research

    Six UNC Department of Medicine faculty members were named in the 2019 Thomas Reuters List of Highly Cited Researchers. The annual list recognizes the most influential researchers of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers than rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science. The following medicine faculty are listed: Jo … Read more