{"id":2424,"date":"2026-03-23T11:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:35:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:35:51","slug":"noris-fight-invests-in-research-to-advance-understanding-of-time-to-myositis-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/2026\/03\/noris-fight-invests-in-research-to-advance-understanding-of-time-to-myositis-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Nori&#8217;s Fight Invests in Research to Advance Understanding of Time to Myositis Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2425\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 295px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2026\/03\/Noris-Fight-Picture-300x276.png\" alt=\"Astia Allenzara and Julia Nickerson from Nori's Fight pose together.\" width=\"285\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2026\/03\/Noris-Fight-Picture-300x276.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2026\/03\/Noris-Fight-Picture-1024x943.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2026\/03\/Noris-Fight-Picture-768x707.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2026\/03\/Noris-Fight-Picture-600x552.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2026\/03\/Noris-Fight-Picture.png 1522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">(Left) Julia Nickerson, President and Co-Founder of Nori&#8217;s Fight, (Right) Astia Allenzara, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the UNC Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nori\u2019s Fight is a non-profit organization started in honor of Noriel who was a beloved brother, devoted partner, and the inspiration behind Nori\u2019s Fight.<\/p>\n<p>The mission of Nori\u2019s Fight is to raise awareness, accelerate research, and build a community of support so that no other family has to endure the same devastating loss.<\/p>\n<p>Nori\u2019s Fight has partnered with UNC to evaluate factors which may delay Myositis diagnosis. The goal of the current project is to assess the impact of clinical, demographic and health system factors on the time to Myositis diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.norisfight.org\/our-impact\">Nori&#8217;s Fight website<\/a> to learn more about the organization&#8217;s impact on myositis awareness and research towards treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nori\u2019s Fight is a non-profit organization started in honor of Noriel who was a beloved brother, devoted partner, and the inspiration behind Nori\u2019s Fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114753,"featured_media":2425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2026\/03\/Noris-Fight-Picture.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2026\/03\/Noris-Fight-Picture-300x276.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2026\/03\/Noris-Fight-Picture-768x707.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2026\/03\/Noris-Fight-Picture-1024x943.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1468\/2026\/03\/Noris-Fight-Picture-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"Astia Allenzara and Julia Nickerson from Nori's Fight pose together.","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/rheumatology-allergy-immunology\/allenzaralab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}