The UNC Whole Brian Health Program (WBHP) has been awarded funding from the Health Resources and services Administration (HRSA) via a Transition for Youth with Autism and/or Epilepsy Demonstration Project. This funding award will provide $2,248,752 over the course of 5 years to expand the existing UNC Neurology Transition to Adult Clinic into the Whole … Read more
Sharing from the University of California’s Global Health Institute: Dr. Stephen Ojiambo Wandera and Dr. Monica Maria Diaz at Makerere University. “The GloCal Health Fellowship is excited to share that two of its alumni are collaborating on a new research study to assess dementia and frailty among older persons in rural Eastern Uganda. Dr. Stephen … Read more
A $100,000 grant from the Neurocritical Care Foundation has been awarded to David Y. Hwang MD, FAAN, FCCM, FNCS, division chief of neurocritical care in the Department of Neurology at the UNC School of Medicine, and colleagues to research an intervention to support family caregivers of patients surviving ICU admission for coma. David Y. Hwang … Read more
UNC Neurology Researcher Dr. Ian Shih Receives a $2.4M NIH Grant to Improve Functional Brain Imaging Techniques! Dr. Ian Shih, Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the UNC Department of Neurology, has been awarded a $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to transform functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) methods. Shih’s … Read more
Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill continues to grow, bringing in more than $1.2 billion in funding awards during the 2022 fiscal year. This is the third year in a row that research awards have topped $1 billion, facilitating research projects and experiments for external sponsors like federal agencies, industry partners, and … Read more
NC TraCS awarded funding for a $5K-$50K grant application submitted by Rebecca Traub, MD and Xiaoyan Li, MD, PhD.
NC TraCS awarded funding for a $5K-$50K grant application submitted by Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD.
The Center for Animal MRI (CAMRI) at the Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), led by Ian Shih, PhD, received two National Institutes of Health grants totaling $2.6 million for a new MRI instrument and to upgrade an existing MRI system.
