The path from an idea in a lab to a new therapy can be a long one. A new five-year award for $54.6 million has been announced that is intended to accelerate the pace at which clinical and translational research directly benefits patients and… read more
Dr. Myron S. Cohen, UNC physician and scientist who has been internationally recognized for his work studying the transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS, has been chosen to receive the 2013 North Carolina Award for Science. The award is… read more
A little more than a year ago, a physicist named Peter Higgs made startling news with what’s now known as the Higgs boson, the idea that a background field permeating all matter was responsible for mass. It was at Carolina in 1965 that Higgs… read more
Sixty years ago, scientists could electrically stimulate a region of a mouse’s brain causing the mouse to eat, whether hungry or not. Now researchers from UNC’s School of Medicine have pinpointed the precise cellular connections responsible for… read more
A new multidisciplinary clinical research center at the University — funded by a $5.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health — is being created to seek better ways to address the costly public health issue of… read more
Dr. Norman “Ned” Sharpless ’88 will become only the third director of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in January. Sharpless, who studied math as an undergraduate and received his degree in medicine from UNC in 1993, will… read more
Beginning with the opening of the N.C. Cancer Hospital on the UNC campus in 2007, the state has given $50 million every year to the University Cancer Research Fund for research in the hospital and in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer… read more
Faculty at UNC secured $777.8 million in overall research funding in fiscal 2013. That total is up nearly $11 million — or 1.4 percent — from $767.1 million the previous year. That funding total comes in contracts and grants awarded by… read more
After years of scientific uncertainty and speculation, researchers at UNC can show exactly how trees help create one of society’s predominant environmental and health concerns: air pollution. It has long been known that trees produce and emit… read more
Kerry Steven Bloom, the Thad L. Beyle Distinguished Professor of biology at the University, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for… read more