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Category: Research

2020 Broyhill Research Award in Child Neurology Recipients Announced

November 10, 2020
The UNC Department of Neurology is proud to announce that child neurologists Senyene Hunter, MD, PhD, and Diana Cejas, MD, MPH, are this year’s recipients of the UNC Broyhill Research Award in Child Neurology.

Center for Animal MRI at BRIC Receives NIH Grants to Upgrade Facilities

November 3, 2020
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.

UNC Neurology Receives New Center of Excellence Designation

August 4, 2020
The Division of Neuromuscular Disorders has been designated as a Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation Charcot-Marie-Tooth Center of Excellence.

Experimental drug found to improve symptoms of generalized myasthenia gravis

May 27, 2020
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.