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UNC Hospital Hillsborough Campus AIRC Receives Upgrade

July 6, 2023
The News of Orange County recently published an article about the recent renovations to the UNC Hospital Hillsborough Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Center (AIRC). Located on the seventh-floor bed tower at UNC Memorial Hospital, the AIRC helps optimize patient recovery for a broad scope of conditions, including spinal cord injury, stroke,...

Dr. Weiting Zhang received a new NIH R21 award and promoted to the rank of Assistant Professor within the Department of Neurology

June 29, 2023
Dr. Weiting Zhang, a staff scientist in Ian Shih’s lab, has received a new NIH R21 award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The award provides two years of research funding and aims to dissect the neural origins of interhemispheric resting-state functional connectivity in the striatum using...

Academy of Educators Accomplishments 2023

June 21, 2023
Congratulations to Neurology faculty and trainees for their recent Academy of Educator (AOE) accomplishments. We are so grateful for their enthusiasm, dedication, and talents as UNC AOE educators. Newly Inducted AOE Members: Dr. Tamara Strohm         TAR HEEL Resident-as-Teacher Graduates Dr. Diana Ontiveros        ...

REBOOT Coma! (REsting state fMRI BOLD Offers Opportunity for Treatment in Coma).

May 10, 2023
With the support of Neurology Clinical Research Pilot Award, the clinical resting state functional MRI service will launch a new clinical trial aiming to transform the treatment of brain injury patients with unnoticed seizures. Seizures are often hard to notice in comatose patients, resulting in prolonged recovery periods and suboptimal...

Congratulations Dr. Nina Browner on 15 years of service to UNC at Chapel Hill

May 1, 2023
With our sincerest gratitude, the Department of Neurology extends our warmest congratulations to Dr. Nina Browner on reaching 15 years of employment with UNC Chapel Hill! Dr. Browner, along with 385 other employees of UNC-Chapel Hill who have reached the same milestone this year, deserve the well earned recognition for...

Neurology News – April 2023

April 27, 2023
Neurology quarterly newsletter for 2023. Look out for our next one in July 2023!   Faculty: Muge Gucsavas Calikoglu, MD, MPH Dr. Muge Gucsavas Calikoglu, who holds positions as Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Assistant Director of the Medical Genetics Residency Program, has been named an adjunct...

UNC Office of Technology Commercialization Awarded the Cohen lab to Advance Gene Therapies for ALS Patients

April 27, 2023
The UNC Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) works in partnership with investigators to effectively manage the identification, evaluation, protection, translation and commercialization of impactful inventions and technologies. On April 25, 2023, OTC awarded Dr. Todd Cohen’s lab a Technology Commercialization Grant. Cohen explains, “We will be using this support from...

James Howard, MD: UCB’s Global Corporate Website press released regarding the RAISE clinical trial of zilucoplan

April 14, 2023
On April 13th, 2023, the UCB’s Global Corporate Website released a press statement regarding the RAISE clinical trial of zilucoplan – one of two drugs being reviewed for the treatment of myasthenia gravis. The trial was led by James Howard, MD, who is a neurology professor at the UNC School...

New NIH R21 award to Dr. Li-Ming Hsu, Neurology postdoc, and new R01 award to the Shih lab advance neuroimaging science

April 12, 2023
Dr. Li-Ming Hsu, a postdoctoral researcher in Ian Shih’s lab, received a new R21 award from the National Institute of Drug Abuse to study the role of anterior cingulate cortex in nicotine addiction. Dr. Ian Shih received a new R01 award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke with collaborators...

Shih lab members published on Nature Communications, Science Advances, and Nature Neuroscience

April 11, 2023
Researchers in the Shih lab published novel findings on causal control of the anterior insular cortex on the default mode network of the brain using selective neural stimulation (Nature Communications, featured as an Editor’s highlight article), and multi-channel optical recording of neural activity changes during fMRI (Science Advances, see also Press release, Video...