Category: News

Rheumatic Disease Awareness Month takes place in September each year. This year, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and Association of Rheumatology Professionals (ARP) have chosen the campaign theme, RheumMoves: Exercise for Individuals Living with Rheumatic Diseases, and curated expert-approved resources for patients to help them learn and practice exercise...

Griffin Sonaty, MD, MPH, a second year Rheumatology fellow in the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, was recently awarded the 2025 Marshall J. Schiff MD Memorial Fellow Research Award from the Rheumatology Research Foundation.

The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) recently awarded an R21 grant to Dr. Richard F. Loeser, Jr., Director of the Thurston Arthritis Research Center (TARC) and Joseph P. Archie, Jr. Eminent Professor of Medicine in UNC’s Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, for the project,...

Jasmine Kimber, a UNC medical student (class of 2027), was recently awarded a Medical and Graduate Student Preceptorship Award from the Rheumatology Research Foundation.

The Department of Defense (DoD) recently awarded Dr. Richard F. Loeser, Jr., Director of the Thurston Arthritis Research Center (TARC) and Joseph P. Archie, Jr. Eminent Professor of Medicine in the UNC School of Medicine, a $500,000 research grant towards his project, “A novel drug discovery approach for preventing post-traumatic...

The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) Biomarkers Consortium recently held an Inflammation and Immunity Steering Committee Ideation and Design Meeting on March 24th, 2025, in Bethesda, Maryland.

Researchers from the Thurston Arthritis Research Center at UNC coauthored a recent Nature publication reporting findings from the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) to date that uncovered drug targets and therapy opportunities for osteoarthritis (OA).

The PADME website was recently updated to include a free patient-facing adult survey to assess risk of true allergy to PCN.

Arthritis Care & Research recently published a paper from first author Astia Allenzara, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the UNC Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology, that aimed to examine patient-reported treatment goals among individuals with psoriatic arthritis (PsA).

The UNC Core Center for Clinical Research (CCCR) recently selected the first two pilot grant funding awardees for 2025.