Tag: 2021

Edward L. Barnes, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, is lead author of a new manuscript published online ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. Millie D. Long, MD, MPH, associate professor, is the manuscript’s senior author. The manuscript, “Older Adult Patients Use...

The following letter was sent to Richard Y. Stevens, UNC Board of Trustees Chair, on June 21, 2021. Dear Mr. Stevens: We write this letter in response to the call for action of our elected Faculty Chair, Frank A. Daniels Distinguished Professor Mimi Chapman. We are unified in our faculty...

NC State researchers led by Ke Cheng, PhD, created a therapeutic approach that mimics the receptor that the virus binds to and then traps the virus before it infect cells. The Department of Medicine’s Jason Lobo, MD, the Kimberly H. Tsamoutales Distinguished Term Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Diseases and...

Ross Boyce, MD, assistant professor in the division of infectious diseases, contributed to a study recently published in JAMA that considered the association of simulated COVID-19 vaccinations and nonpharmaceutical interventions with infections, hospitalizations, and mortality. Mehul D. Patel, PhD, assistant professor in the department of emergency medicine, led the study...

Diabetes is one of the comorbidities most strongly associated with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States, and data from early in the pandemic suggested individuals with type 2 diabetes faced twice the risk of death from COVID-19, as well as a greater risk of requiring hospitalization and...

Results released by Novavax on Monday, June 14 reveal another promising vaccine candidate for the world’s battle against COVID-19. UNC joined the Novavax phase III clinical trial at the end of 2020, with Cindy Gay, MD, associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, as the principal investigator. “It is...

More hospitals in the U.S. are going days without seeing any new COVID-19 patients, but despite the positive sign, concerns remain that the delta coronavirus variant could start filling up beds again. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the country had more than 400 COVID-19 hospitalizations...

The Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development and the Academy of Educators leadership have announced the results of the 2021 AOE Leadership Council election. The Department of Medicine congratulates Koyal Jain, MD, MPH, FASN, assistant professor of medicine in the division of nephrology and hypertensions on her election as...

Scientists led by Silvia Kreda, PhD, associate professor in the division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine, and Rudolph Juliano, PhD, Boshamer Distinguished Professor Emeritus in pharmacology, created an improved oligonucleotide therapy strategy with the potential for treating other pulmonary diseases, such as COPD and asthma. The scientists led...

With the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines, the rush to test turned into the rush to vaccinate. “It’s not just vaccination,” said David Wohl, MD, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, in a CBS-17 report. “Testing still is a part of this, understanding what we’re dealing with.” Testing...

For the first time in more than a year, UNC Health reported zero patients in the COVID unit at UNC Medical Center. It was just a 36-hour span this month but it was momentous considering what the unit looked like at the start of the year. Ashley Henderson, MD, associate...

In partnership with local people and health professionals, Joe Tucker, MD, PhD, associate professor in the division of infectious diseases with UNC Global Health colleagues developed a pay-it-forward intervention to promote influenza vaccination among at-risk individuals during COVID-19. “You are an overworked health professional in an under-developed rural town within...