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UNC Neurologists Elected to AAN Section Leadership

April 2, 2022
Monica Diaz, MD, MS, and Ana Felix, MBBCH, FAAN, have been elected as the 2022-2023 Vice Chairs of the American Academy of Neurology’s Global Health Section and the AB Baker Section for Neurological Education, respectively.

Statts Named Department of Neurology Interim Associate Chair for Administration

March 11, 2022
Robert Statts will begin his work in the interim role on March 17.

Neurology News – March 2022

March 10, 2022
What’s new in the Department of Neurology

Traub and Li awarded $5K-50K NC TraCS grant

March 1, 2022
NC TraCS awarded funding for a $5K-$50K grant application submitted by Rebecca Traub, MD and Xiaoyan Li, MD, PhD.

Smith appointed as Vice Dean of UNC’s Gillings School of Public Health

February 15, 2022
Dr. Robert Smith, Associate Chair for Administration, has been appointed as the Vice Dean of Gillings School of Public Health.

Phase 3 study results show positive data in treatment of myasthenia gravis with zilucoplan

February 14, 2022
James F. Howard Jr., MD, professor in the UNC Department of Neurology, was lead investigator in UCB's RAISE trial to evaluate zilucoplan as a treatment for generalized myasthenia gravis in adults.

Nanoparticle-formulated drug combination is effective in medulloblastoma, a pediatric brain tumor

January 27, 2022
Dr. Timothy Gershon is co-corresponding author of new research that appeared in Sciences Advances, January 26, 2022.

Neurology News – January 2022

January 11, 2022
What’s new in the Department of Neurology

FDA approves new drug to treat generalized myasthenia gravis

January 3, 2022
James F. Howard Jr., MD, professor in the UNC Department of Neurology, was principal investigator of the phase 3 trial for the experimental drug efgartigimod, developed by Belgian pharmaceutical company Argenx.

Diaz Receives AAN Clinical Research Training Scholarship

December 13, 2021
The American Academy of Neurology awarded Monica M. Diaz, MD, MS, a Clinical Research Training Scholarship in support of her research on the detection of neurodegeneration in older, cognitively impaired people with HIV.