Category: News

Michael Helmrath, MD, in the Division of Pediatric Surgery, has been awarded a 5 year grant for his project studying “Mechanisms of intestinal stem cell expansion following resection”. The award, R01DK083325, is supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and covers the project period 07/01/2009...

June 25, 2009 — The UNC Health Care YouTube site features a novel aneurysm approach by Dr. Anand Germanwala, on faculty in the Divison of Neurosurgery.

David Gerber, MD, of Transplant Surgery, has been appointed by Chancellor Holden Thorp to the search committee for the University’s next executive vice chancellor and provost, a position being vacated by Bernadette Gray-Little. The seventeen-member search committee, chaired by H. Shelton Earp, MD, will recommend a final slate of candidates...

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded a 5 year grant to Bruce A. Cairns, MD, Director of the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center, for his project studying the “Cellular mechanism of immune dysfuncton following burn injury”. The project, supported by Award Number R01GM076250, covers the period 04/06/2009...

The Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery is pleased to announce that the division will be split into two Sections.Dr. Koruda will remain the Chief of the Division and head the Section of General GI Surgery. This section will include Dr. Timothy Sadiq, Dr. Christopher Rupp and their support staff.

The UNC Health Care YouTube site features a medical news update by Dr. Cathleen Sybert, General Surgery resident, on the patients injured in the ConAgra plant explosion.

“The Modern Surgical Lifestyle” is published in the June issue of the Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Jennifer Nelson, a General Surgery resident at UNC, is a co-author.

UNC scientists identify growth factor as possible cancer drug target