Category: Research
Gaurav Dave to serve as Research Director for NIH’s Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health Program
UNC-Chapel Hill has been announced as the recipient of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) award. Created by the Office of Research on Women’s Health in partnership with NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices, BIRCWH is a mentored career-development program designed to connect junior faculty to senior faculty … Read more
Shehzad Sheikh Identifies CADM1 as a Key Driver of Gut Inflammation in IBD Patients
Shehzad Z. Sheikh, MD, PhD A groundbreaking study co-led by Shehzad Z. Sheikh, MD, PhD, professor of medicine in the UNC Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and Matthew N. Poy, PhD, associate professor of medicine with Johns Hopkins University, reveals Cell Adhesion Molecule 1 (CADM1), a surface protein involved in cell-cell adhesion, is significantly elevated in the int … Read more
Ria Dancel Collaborates on Creation of Internal Medicine Residency POCUS Recommendations
Ria Dancel, MD Ria Dancel, MD, FACP, SFHM, FAAP, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics in the UNC Division of Hospital Medicine, collaborated with a group of academic teaching physicians to develop the first expert and evidence-based consensus on the core components of a point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) curriculum for internal medicine residency training in the United States. Thei … Read more
Joseph Eron on New HIV Prevention Breakthrough
Joe Eron, MD Joseph Eron, M.D., the Herman and Louise Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UNC School of Medicine and director of the Clinical Core at the UNC Center for AIDS Research, is spotlighting the potential of lenacapavir, a new FDA-approved, twice-yearly injectable medication for HIV prevention. In clinical trials, lenacapavir showed 99.9% effectiveness—surpassin … Read more
M. Bradley Drummond Found Promise in Using Digital Inhalers to Predict COPD Flare-ups
Dr.Brad Drummond M. Bradley Drummond, MD, MHS, a Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Obstructive Lung Diseases Clinical and Translational Research Center at UNC, published a pilot study in the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation suggesting that digital inhaler technology may help predict worsening symptoms in COPD patients up to two we … Read more
Christopher Dittus Completes Meaningful Lymphoma Study He Started as a Fellow
Christopher Dittus, DO, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical Director of the lymphoma program, is the senior author of a newly published study in the British Journal of Haematology evaluating a novel treatment approach for aggressive adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), a rare and deadly subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that primarily affects ethnic minority populat … Read more
Richard Loeser Receives Department of Defense Grant for Investigating Post-Traumatic Oseteoarthritis
Richard Loeser, Jr., MD, Director of the Thurston Arthritis Research Clinic and a Joseph P. Archie Eminent Professor of Medicine, was awarded a $500K grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) for his study entitled,” A novel drug discovery approach for preventing post-traumatic osteoarthritis.” The DoD’s Arthritis Research Program Focused Research Award supports high-risk high-r … Read more
New Cross-Disciplinary ID Service Aims to Reduce Burden of C. Diff Infections at UNC Eastowne
A cross-disciplinary project led by Thomas Holowka, MD, PhD, fourth-year fellow (PI) and Luther Bartelt, MD, DTM&H, associate professor (co-PI), will be piloting a service embedded within the ID clinic overseen by Claire Farel, MD, MPH, at Eastowne that is expected to diminish wait times for patients, and facilitate a more accurate diagnosis through a detailed patient history … Read more
John Buse Leads Study Finding Cushing’s Syndrome in a Quarter of Patients with Difficult-to-Control Diabetes
John Buse, MD, PhD, Verne S. Caviness Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, led a study finding 24% of individuals with difficult-to-control type 2 diabetes also present with hypercortisolism (Cushing’s syndrome). This study, entitled CATALYST and published in Diabetes Care, was the largest and most rigorous trial ever conducted to … Read more
Amanda Nelson Contributes to Landmark Osteoarthritis Study
Left to right: Amanda E. Nelson, MD, MSCR, RhMSUS; Liubov Arbeeva, MS; Yvonne Golightly, PT, MS, PhD Amanda E. Nelson, MD, MSCR, RhMSUS, professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, and other Thurston Arthritis Research Center researchers coauthored a study entitled, “Translational genomics of osteoarthritis in 1,962,069 individuals” in Nature. T … Read more
Drs. Saira and Shehzad Sheikhs’ Project Voted First Place by Peers at FNIH Biomarkers Consortium
Saira Sheikh, MD, Linda Coley Sewell Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the UNC Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology and Director of the Clinical Trials Program at UNC’s Thurston Arthritis Research Center, along with her brother Shehzad Sheikh, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine in the UNC Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, were invited to pitch their co … Read more
Electronic reporting of symptoms by cancer patients can improve quality of life and reduce emergency visits
People with metastatic cancer who regularly report their symptoms via a home-based electronic monitoring system experienced improved quality of life, clinical outcomes and well-being, as well as fewer emergency department visits than those who didn’t file reports. Both groups had similar overall survival rates, according to University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Ca … Read more