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New Focused Ultrasound Effective for treating Parkinson’s, Movement Disorders

February 23, 2023

This nationwide program aims to build innovative and sustainable solutions to expand test access and uptake in underserved and vulnerable communities. The UNC School of Medicine lead is Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc, who is part of the leadership team for this arm of the NIH Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Program.


UNC School of Medicine Awarded $3 Million for Emerging Pathogen Preparedness and Training

February 23, 2023

Yueh Lee, MD, PhD, Jiandong Liu, PhD, and Angela Smith, MD were selected as Yang Family Biomedical Scholars in the fifth installment of this annual award.


UNC School of Medicine NIH Funding Ranks 6th among Public Universities

February 23, 2023

Expertscape, an online database that assesses and ranks the expertise and contributions of physicians and medical institutions worldwide, rated multiple UNC biomedical researchers and physicians as top-rated experts in their fields for its 2021 rankings.


Announcing the Five Teams Receiving Basic Science Emerging Challenges Grants

May 8, 2020

The UNC School of Medicine awarded the 2019 Emerging Challenges in Biomedical Research Awards to five teams conducting basic science research in the fields of machine-learning, flaviviruses, vaping, and LPL trafficking


Dr. Frances Ligler: Superhero

August 7, 2019

2017 Emerging Challenges in Biomedical Research Grants

September 26, 2017

The UNC School of Medicine and NC TraCS announce labs selected for $50,000 pilot grants to further Alzheimer’s Disease. Three teams received the 2017 SOM funded ECBR grants. This year’s focus was Alzheimer’s Disease. The interdisciplinary teams use a diversity of techniques and approaches to Alzheimer’s pathology and therapy. The 2017 ECBR projects are: Rich Meeker, PhD (Neurology) and Todd Cohen, PhD (Neurology) are Co-PIs leading a team of investigators on a project titled Inflammation, Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Vulnerability. Other team members include Paul Carney, MD (Pediatric Neurology), Tom DeMarse, PhD (Neurology), Zibo Li, PhD (Radiology), Hong Yuan, PhD … Read more


Summer 2017 TTSA Awards go to 4 Teams

September 26, 2017

New Phase I Translational Team Science Awards (TTSA) funded July 2017 Kristalyn Gallagher, MD (Surgery) and Xian Chen (Biochemistry & Biophysics) are Co-PIs on a project titled Proteogenomic discovery of patient-specific, phenotypic markers for early diagnosis of invasive lobular carcinoma. Timothy Gershon, MD (Neurology) and Kirk Wilhelmsen, MD (Genetics) are Co-PIs on a project titled Analyzing clonal diversity to improve risk stratification and therapy for meulloblastoma. Phase I teams awarded a Phase II grant June 2017 Rich David, MD (Ophthalmology), Matthew Hirsch, PhD (Ophthalmology), and Brian Gilger, DVM, MS received continued funding for their project Prevention of Cornea Graft Rejection … Read more


WOMEN IN SCIENCE WEDNESDAY

September 26, 2017

Read about Vice Dean Blossom Damania and other successful women in science at UNC. The Women in Science Wednesday series features a different UNC researcher each week whose focus falls within the fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. Women in Science Wednesday