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The UNC School of Medicine lab of Bryan Roth, MD, PhD, and colleagues at UCSF, Stanford and Harvard determined that a protein prediction technology can yield accurate results in the hunt to ef...

https://news.unchealthcare.org/2024/05/researchers-wrestle-with-accuracy-of-ai-technology-used-to-create-new-drug-candidates/

Guochun Jiang, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics and member of the UNC HIV Cure Center, received an R01 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for his project...

https://news.unchealthcare.org/2024/05/jiang-receives-4-46-million-nimh-grant/

The University Libraries has a new website: https://library.unc.edu/health-sciences/  Because the new site is designed to be more intuitive for first-time users, some resources and service req...

https://news.unchealthcare.org/2024/05/university-libraries-new-website-launch-on-may-14/

Brooke Matson, Jeremy Meier, Brittany Raffa, and Shivani Sud will receive support from the UNC School of Medicine Physician Scientists Training Program to cultivate their careers as translational...

https://news.unchealthcare.org/2024/05/four-scholars-named-to-physician-scientist-training-program-3/

The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday, May 10 2024. Continue reading

https://news.unchealthcare.org/2024/05/newsworthy-from-the-school-of-medicine-week-of-may-10-may-16/

In this new Vital Signs series, we feature graduate student Isabela Gerdes Gyuricza in the Parr lab. Through her research at UNC, Gerdes Gyuricza has developed a clearer vision of how her work...

https://news.unchealthcare.org/2024/05/five-questions-with-isabela-gerdes-gyuricza/

‘Clinic on wheels’ will offer important tests and services for children, especially in rural areas. Continue reading

https://news.unchealthcare.org/2024/05/unc-health-rolls-out-new-hearing-and-speech-mobile-clinic/

The UNC School of Medicine lab of Zoe McElligott, PhD, and colleagues found that the animal tranquilizer xylazine activates opioid receptors in the brain, suggesting a reason why the treatment...

https://news.unchealthcare.org/2024/05/scientists-discover-surprising-details-about-xylazine-in-combination-with-fentanyl/

Sarah Linnstaedt, PhD, Benjamin Vincent, MD, and Pengda Liu, PhD, were selected as Yang Family Biomedical Scholars in the eighth installment of this annual School of Medicine award. Continue...

https://news.unchealthcare.org/2024/05/unc-school-of-medicine-names-2023-24-yang-family-biomedical-scholars/

The below clickable headlines link directly to outside media outlets, which featured UNC School of Medicine faculty starting Friday, May 3 2024. Continue reading

https://news.unchealthcare.org/2024/05/newsworthy-from-the-school-of-medicine-week-of-may-3-may-9/

The UNC Autism Research Center awarded two Kelley Altman Greer Family Autism Research Fund Pilot Awards to four UNC-Chapel Hill researchers, including cell biology researcher Matthew Judson, PhD,...

https://news.unchealthcare.org/2024/05/the-unc-autism-research-center-pilot-awards/

Juliane Nguyen, PhD, professor and vice chair of pharmacoengineering and molecular pharmaceuticals at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, and Janelle Arthur, PhD, associate professor of micro...

https://news.unchealthcare.org/2024/05/researchers-engineer-yeast-to-deliver-drugs-reduce-inflammation-for-possible-inflammatory-bowel-disease-treatment/