{"id":3314,"date":"2024-09-09T17:42:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T21:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/unccra\/?post_type=ud_entry&#038;p=3314"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:03:06","slug":"mac-robinson-phd","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/unccra\/people\/mac-robinson-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Robinson, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Robinson provides support in the development and maintenance of documentation associated with grant proposals, clinical trials, and scientific communications. He brings over eight years of medical writing experience, including drafting and editing clinical protocols and associated documents (e.g., consents, case report forms, regulatory submissions, annual reports, study reports, Investigator\u2019s Brochures); SOPs; federal, foundation, and industry proposals (e.g., grants, Letters of Intent and Support); and scientific manuscripts.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Dr. Robinson served as Director, Clinical Development at Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he led a team of medical writers and liaisons facilitating the development of investigator-initiated trials, collaboration with industry partners, and IND portfolio management. He also has over 20 years of research experience in neurobiology, asthma, genomics, cancer, cellular stress, and biochemistry, in addition to directing a multidisciplinary team in testing a potential treatment for radiation skin injury.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Education:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>PhD, Molecular Genetics, Wake Forest University<\/li>\n<li>MS, Clinical and Population Translational Sciences, Wake Forest University<\/li>\n<li>BS, Biology, James Madison University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4248,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[8],"class_list":["post-3314","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-cra-leadership-and-coordinating-center-experts","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mac Robinson, PhD - 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