Melissa Miller, PhD, director of the Clinical Molecular Microbiology Laboratory at UNC Medical Center, talks with the News and Observer about why an at-home COVID test might give false-negative results and tips on how to determine if follow-up testing is needed.

Congratulations to Melissa Miller, PhD for receiving the 2021 Governor’s Award for Excellence. The Governor’s Award for Excellence is the highest honor a state employee may receive for dedicated service to the State of North Carolina and its citizens. The award gives us an opportunity to recognize exemplary state employees whose service and contributions go … Continued

Please mark your calendars for this year’s Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture, which will be held virtually on Thursday, November 18, 2021. The event will open at 3:45 p.m. with the lecture scheduled to commence at 4:00 p.m.   Craig Fletcher, DVM, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair in the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology … Continued

  This week the UNC Center for Women’s Health Research is sponsoring a poster session highlighting research accomplished by faculty, students, residents, and postdoctoral fellows.    The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is excited to use this event as an opportunity to announce the newly launched Women’s Health Multidisciplinary Consortium (WHMC), whose mission is … Continued

Christian Agosto-Burgos, Pathobiology & Translational Science Graduate Student was recently interviewed by Univision 40. He explains how natural, and vaccine-mediated immunity are different, why individuals develop the disease more than once, why it is important to receive the two doses of the vaccine, what is a variant, and why are they emerging in different locations. … Continued

Li Qian, PhD, associate professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and associate director of the McAllister Heart Institute, has received the prestigious Emerging Investigator Award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, a part of the NIH. The award includes $6.5 million in funding over seven years.

Li Qian, PhD, and Jiandong Liu, PhD, associate professors in the department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, have each won prestigious Established Investigator Awards from the American Heart Association for their separate research on how to heal damaged heart tissue. Their own hearts belong to each other, and the family they’ve built together both at home and at the UNC School of Medicine.

Dr. John Schmitz and Dr. David Wohl of UNC were highlighted in an NPR story on a new approach to improve antibody testing for coronavirus. Dr. Schmitz is Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UNC and Director of the Immunology Laboratory at UNC Hospitals.

Dr. Susan Weiss, one of our faculty members in Transfusion Medicine, was recently interviewed regarding development of a COVID-19 antibody treatment therapy.  The interview aired on ABC 11, WTVD during the 11:00 news.

Dr. Melissa Miller and her colleagues at UNC Hospitals have been recognized by the national media for working around the clock to develop a rapid COVID-19 test. The story aired on the “Today” show on NBC on March 19, 2020. Dr. Miller is Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UNC and Director of the Clinical Microbiology and … Continued