The Department would like to recognize Tengfei Li, PhD, for being named institutional investigator and Subcontract P.I. for a collaborative study — “Analysis of Big Data Squared in Biomedical Studies” – funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in September 2018 ($318K+) to Yale University P.I. and Professor of Biostatistics Dr. Heping Zhang. Over … Read more

The Department would like to recognize Zibo Li, PhD, for receiving both industry and federal funding for two significant investigations in late 2018. In October 2018, Dr. Li entered a sponsored two-year research agreement (renewable $186.6K+/year) with OncoTrap Inc., to conduct a study entitled, “Evaluation of OncoTrap’s lead drugs in tumor bearing mouse model.”  In … Read more

The Department would like to congratulate Gang Li, PhD, for receiving a Junior Faculty Development Award from the University’s Committee on Faculty Research and Scholarly Leaves. For the full 12-month 2019 calendar year, Li is applying his $10K award toward a scholarly project proposed in his application to the Committee — “Computational Tools for Analysis … Read more

The Department would like to congratulate Epidemiology Research Division Director and Associate Professor Louise Henderson, PhD, and multi-institution collaborators for receiving North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NCTraCS) Institute Carolinas Collaborative (CC) Grant funding ($50K) in October 2018 for their proposed pilot study – “Detection of Coronary Artery Calcification in the Lung Cancer Screening Population: … Read more

The Department would like to congratulate Weili Lin, PhD, for being selected in November 2018 as one of 42 Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research (ARBIR) 2018 Distinguished Investigators. Each year, the ARBIR honors the new class of Distinguished Investigators at a ceremony held at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting. … Read more

The Department would like to congratulate Dinggang Shen, PhD, for his selection as a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). Announcement of 2018 IAPR Fellows was made at the 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) in Beijing, China, in August 2018. Introduced in 1994, the prestigious IAPR Fellow Award is biennially … Read more

Undergraduate medical education in radiology now extends from Foundation (pre-clinical) Phase through Application and Individualization (clinical) Phases. UME in the Foundation Phase includes lectures on basic radiology (in the hematology class), chest radiology (in the cardiac and respiratory systems), and nuclear medicine (in the endocrine system). In addition, the physical examination course (known as patient-centered … Read more

      In October 2018, 4th-year Diagnostic Radiology Resident Dr. Josh Wallace was awarded a UNC School of Medicine Office of International Activities (OIA) Scholarship and an NC American College of Radiology (ACR) Global Health Fellowship to support month-long medical mission travel as a UNC Radiology Malawi Program participant. Diagnostic Radiology Program Director Dr. … Read more

In 1996, Dr. Francis Pepper from Winston-Salem established the “Wood Fund for Advancement of Neuroradiology at UNC,” which supported an endowed chairmanship. The fund and Chair were established to honor Dr. Ernest H. Wood, first Chair of Radiology at UNC and a pioneer neuroradiologist. Income from the fund is used to support pilot research projects, … Read more

In November 2018, Epidemiology Research Division Director and Associate Professor Louise Henderson, PhD, presented her research as one of three honored scholars at the third annual Yang Family Biomedical Scholars seminar.  Henderson and two other School of Medicine faculty — Drs. Yen-Yu Ian Shih (Department of Neurology) and Jonathan Juliano (Department of Medicine) — were named the … Read more

In November 2018, Vascular-Interventional Radiology faculty, fellows and advance practice providers prepared and served dinner to 260 community members supported by Urban Ministries of Durham. Since its early 1980s founding, the organization has collaborated with community leadership to end homelessness and fight poverty by offering food, shelter and a future to Durham neighbors in need. … Read more

     In late November 2018, UNC Radiology staff supported local food aid non-profit TABLE through donating dry goods and monetarily to its Weekend Meal Backpack Program and Snack Chef programs. Staff members contributed almost 70 pounds of dry goods in support of the weekly emergency food aid program to Chapel Hill/Carrboro-area school children in … Read more