Category: Allergy

UNC School of Medicine Office of Research awards pilot funding to Moran and Kulis team for cutting-edge New Approach Methodologies research.

Maureen M. Petersen, MD, FACAAI, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Allergy/Immunology has been inducted as Vice President of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (ACAAI)

Ongoing clinical research study in US children documents the rebound of endemic respiratory viruses, builds foundation for expediting future vaccines and treatments.

Michelle Hernandez is leading asthma research in rural communities across North Carolina to make care and clinical studies more accessible.

Michael Kulis, PhD was promoted to Professor of Pediatrics effective July 1, 2025. Dr. Kulis has been a faculty member in Pediatric Allergy-Immunology since 2012. Dr. Kulis works as part of the UNC Food Allergy Initiative. He earned his PhD in Biochemistry, from the Georgia Institute of Technology and completed...

UNC Children's is proud to announce that two physician-researchers were honored by the Triangle Business Journal as recipients of 2025 Health Care Leadership Awards. Congratulations!

Wesley Burks, MD, CEO of UNC Health and dean of the UNC School of Medicine, professor of pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Allergy/Immunology, Department of Pediatrics and Corinne A. Keet, MD, PhD, professor of pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Allergy/Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, write editorial in New England Journal of Medicine Evidence...

Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Caid (Allergy/Immunology Fellow), Dr. Marielys Collazo-Roman (ID Fellow), and Dr. Paige Noreen (Pulmonology Fellow), who have been selected as our next group of Carolina Child Health Scholars!

Several pediatrics faculty were recently selected to receive UNC-Chapel Hill Junior Faculty Development Awards for 2025. The Junior Faculty Development Awards are funded by IBM and R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. This award grants $10,000 to support scholarly pursuits over one calendar year.

Meghan Rebuli, PhD, ATSF, Assistant Professor in Pediatric Allergy/Immunology, has been appointed as the new Director of the Curriculum in Toxicology and Environmental Medicine (CiTEM) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Rebuli will officially assume this role on Monday, Jan. 13, succeeding Ilona Jaspers, PhD, who...