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Hanna Sanoff, MD, MPH A paper published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine. For the small study, all 18 patients were given dostarlimab, a checkpoint inhibitor. The results were astounding. Every patient’s cancer disappeared, undetectable by physical examination, endoscopy, PET scans, or M.R.I. scans. Dr. Hanna K. Sanoff, MD, MPH, an associate professor … Read more

Dr. John Batsis, Dr. Max Hockenberry, Dr. Hillary Spangler, Dr. Brianna Harder, Dr. Tiffany Long, Dr. Sarah Stoneking, UNC Geriatrics Chief Dr. Jan Busby-Whitehead, and Dr. David Lynch. The American Geriatric Society held its 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting in Orlando, FL, May 12-14, 2022. Composed of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and the Center for Aging and Health, UNC Geriatrics … Read more

Sarah Rutstein, MD, PhD, a physician scientist and senior clinical fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine, has been accepted to the HIV Infectious Disease and Global Health Implementation Research Institute (HIGH IRI) through the Center for Dissemination and Implementation at the Institute for Public Health at Washington University in … Read more

  UNC Health Care has been selected for a 2022 Top Research Site Award by the Heart Failure Collaboratory (HFC) and the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) for outstanding performance on two clinical trials: PARAGLIDE-HF, and LY3461767 in Participants With Chronic Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction. The vision of the Heart Failure Society … Read more

(From left to right) Grace Prince, MD, Rimma Osipov, MD, PhD, and Paul Chelminski, MD, MPH, FACP, presenting an abstract of their medical humanities work at the Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting in 2019. Each morning, Internal Medicine residents take their seats for Morning Report, a case-based resident-led discussion in which Internal Medicine … Read more

As we all desperately await a way to treat COVID-19, beyond prevention, the following publication has metrics that are incredible (following February publication, by December 2021 it had been accessed >107K times with a >1700 Altimetric).

Klara Klein, MD, PhD Klara R. Klein, MD, PhD, fellow in the division of endocrinology and metabolism and trainee in the UNC Physician Scientist Training Program, and John Buse, MD, PhD, chief of the division of endocrinology and metabolism, are authors of a new study published in BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care. Hemoglobin glycation index … Read more

Carla Ribeiro, PhD Carla Ribiero, PhD, professor of medicine in the division pulmonary and critical care medicine, expands the understanding of how airway inflammation improves CFTR rescue and may benefit cystic fibrosis patients, in a new review published in Cells. The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein is responsible for regulating the proper flow … Read more

Lisa Carey, MD, FASCO Lisa A. Carey, MD, FASCO, the L. Richardson and Marilyn Jacobs Preyer Distinguished Professor for Breast Cancer Research, Division of Oncology and Deputy Director of Clinical Sciences for the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses findings from a pooled analysis of the MONALEESA-2, -3, and -7 trials. Among the findings was a consistent … Read more

Anne Peery, MD, MSCR Anne Peery, MD, MSCR, associate professor in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, is the corresponding author of a new article, “Burden and Cost of Gastrointestinal, Liver and Pancreatic Diseases in the United States: Update 2021,” published October 19 in Gastroenterology. The study concluded, “Gastrointestinal diseases are responsible for millions of … Read more

A single dose of REGEN-COV, a combination monoclonal antibody therapy, reduced the risk of COVID-19 by 81.6% several months after a single dose. UNC School of Medicine’s Myron Cohen, MD, leads monoclonal antibody research efforts as part of the NIH-sponsored COVID Prevention Network. Myron Cohen, MD Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced additional positive results from a … Read more