If you suffer a heart attack while walking down the street and are taken to the hospital quickly, your chances of survival are very good. But if you have a heart attack while already in the hospital for something else, you are 10 times more likely… read more
Seven UNC students have received UNC Class of 1938 travel fellowships for research abroad this summer. The students were chosen from 42 applicants who submitted proposals for projects outside the U.S. Selection is based on the quality of an… read more
Outgoing Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 has been named chair of a new National Research Council committee tasked with establishing and promoting a culture of safety in academic laboratory research. Thorp is among 13 academic and industry… read more
UNC research has shown that children at risk of developing schizophrenia have brains that function differently than those not at risk. Brain scans of children who have parents or siblings with the illness reveal a neural circuitry that is… read more
Parents may plead, cajole or entice their children to try new foods, but some kids just won’t budge. Now, new research from Carolina reveals that the reason these kids fear new foods has less to do with what’s on their plate and more to do with… read more
Despite a substantial increase in the number of people suffering the debilitating and often deadly effects of heart failure, treatments for the condition have not advanced significantly for at least 10 years. An analysis by researchers at UNC’s… read more
Nine scientists from the University have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. The Carolina researchers are among 702 new fellows chosen for this honor,… read more
Myron S. Cohen, an acclaimed physician and researcher who has spent the past three decades studying the transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS, spoke to Carolina’s December graduates on Dec. 16. Cohen joined the UNC faculty in 1980 — the… read more
An international research collaboration — led by scientists at UNC’s School of Medicine and the University of Dundee in Scotland — have developed a way to efficiently and effectively make designer drugs that hit multiple protein targets at… read more
Two professors in the School of Medicine have been elected to the Institute of Medicine, considered one of the nation’s highest honors for those in the fields of health and medicine. Myron S. Cohen, J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professor of… read more