UNC Oncology Chaplain Named North Carolina Chaplain of the Year
This award is presented annually in recognition of “distinguished ministry in pastoral care” to a chaplain “who serves patients, community and colleagues with grace and innovation.”
View ArticleUNC Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation Program achieves outstanding...
UNC Cancer Care’s Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation Program is one of only 14 out of 156 centers across the country to be rated an “overperforming” center.
View ArticleN.C. House and Senate Leaders Announce UNC Health Care System and WakeMed...
The agreement develops partnerships in important areas of medical education and health care delivery. UNC Health Care and WakeMed also have agreed to collaboration and transparency in other areas and...
View ArticleHIV hides soon after infection, UNC research shows
A team of researchers led by the University of North Carolina School of Medicine has demonstrated that latency develops soon after infection and slows when antiretroviral therapy is given.
View ArticleQuest to understand Hepatitis C link with liver cancer receives $2.35 million...
Two UNC scientists have received $2.35 million to study the question of how hepatitis C causes liver cancer.
View ArticleNew study shows benefit of new maintenance therapy for multiple myeloma
Dr. Thomas Shea and Dr. Don Gabriel of UNC are co-authors of the study, which offers promising news about a new long-term therapy, lenalidomide, that can be used after transplantation to slow down the...
View ArticleUNC to offer M.D.-M.B.A. dual-degree program through new collaboration
The University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Kenan-Flagler Business School have partnered to launch a unique dual-degree program offering medical students the opportunity to earn doctor of...
View ArticleDr. Wesley Burks named chair of Food Allergy Initiative’s Medical Advisory Board
UNC’s internationally renowned allergy expert to lead effort to develop new treatments and discover a cure for life-threatening food allergies.
View ArticleUNC study shows potential to revive abandoned cancer drug by nanoparticle...
A team of UNC researchers developed nanoparticle carriers to successfully deliver therapeutic doses of a cancer drug that had previously failed clinical development due to pharmacologic challenges.
View ArticleGrant to fund use of kinase test in HER2-positive breast cancer
Susan G. Komen for the Cure® has awarded a grant of almost $900,000 to Lisa A. Carey, MD, and Gary Johnson, PhD, to research clinical applications for the first broad-based test for protein kinase...
View ArticleMolecular subtypes and genetic alterations may determine response to lung...
A UNC-led team of scientists has shown for the first time that lung cancer molecular subtypes correlate with distinct genetic alterations and with patient response to therapy.
View Articlereal doctors, real people - Eric Juengst
Eric Juengst, PhD, directs the UNC Center for Bioethics. He also makes armor. Yep, the kind knights would wear while protecting their king's domain.
View ArticleChelminski, Meltzer-Brody named first Sanders Clinician Scholars
As the first two Sanders Clinician Scholars, Paul Chelminski, MD, MPH, and Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH, will develop educational efforts to enhance supportive direct personal contact in the daily...
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