Category: Research

The following is a list of new grants awarded to SOM faculty within the Department of OBGYN.  PI Project Title Sponsor Award Amount Project Begin Date Miller Singleton, MD Inter-relationship of the Gut and Tumor Microbiome and Disparities in Endometrial Cancer  Winter Meeting SGO Early Career Investigator Research Grant $50,000...

On having the BIRCWH award return to UNC-Chapel Hill, PI Dr. Lisa Rahangdale said, “The BIRCWH program has been influential for many successful women’s health researchers and leaders at UNC. We are thrilled to have the program back and to welcome our new scholars and their mentorship teams to the...

Chapel Hill, NC – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers played prominent roles at the 37th Annual Conference of the International Papillomavirus Society (IPVS 2025) in Bangkok, Thailand, demonstrating the university’s leadership in global efforts to prevent cervical cancer and HPV-related diseases.   Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, FACOG, Assistant...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C— Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, FACOG, an assistant professor in the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and affiliate faculty at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Center for AIDS Research and the UNC Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases has been selected...

The Women’s Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Program at UNC-Chapel Hill has been renewed for a five-year term. This National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative’s primary goal is to provide Ob-Gyn junior faculty with state-of-the-art training in women’s reproductive health research in an academic setting and to increase the...

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Katelyn Rittenhouse’s proposal, “Fetal Age and Machine Learning Initiative: Improving Pregnancy Evaluation in Low-Resource Settings (FAMLI),” has been selected for the EQT Foundation’s Breakthrough Science: Women’s Health Grant. This award recognizes bold, transformative ideas with the potential to drive meaningful change in women’s...

The UNC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology is proud to expand its role as a leader in research, dedicated to advancing patient care, improving treatment outcomes, and driving innovation. To support this mission, Dr. Vanessa Miller has developed a year-long data analysis course tailored for OBGYN clinicians actively involved in...

UNC OBGYN Jeffrey Stringer has developed a portable ultrasound device using AI to read the results of the scans it produces, reducing the need for trained staff in areas lacking health care resources. When Jeffrey Stringer was in the middle of his medical program at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in the mid-1990s, one...

The Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases (IGHID) and UNC Global Women’s Health announce the first two PhD graduates of the UNC-UNZA-Wits Partnership for HIV and Women’s Reproductive Health Training Program, led by co-principal investigators Carla Chibwesha, MD, MSc, and Benjamin Chi, MD, MSc, in Global Women’s Health.  Funded...

The University of North Carolina (UNC) recently hosted the 2024 Women’s Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Program retreat, an event that brought together some of the most promising scholars and researchers in the field of women’s health. Funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)...

Dr. Christine Chu, MD, MSCI, has been awarded the 2024-25 James W. Woods Junior Faculty Award and will be presenting at the 2024-2025 seminar as part of UNC Research Week. Dr. Chu is being recognized for her study, “Recurrent UTI and Postmenopause: A Translational Approach to Treatment and Prevention,” which...