Dr. Luther Bartelt is a faculty physician in the division of infectious diseases, researching two gut pathogens commonly found in malnourished children that impair growth. Dr. Bartelt developed a laboratory mouse model of co-infection during malnutrition, and the results of his work have been published in PLOS Pathogens.
From a vaccine for malaria to ending the HIV epidemic, UNC infectious diseases researchers in Malawi gear up to take on more challenges in a changing country. UNC Chancellor Carol L. Folt recently visited UNC-Project Malawi, as did Vital Signs Editor Jamie Williams who published the following report.
UNC researchers led by Nancie Archin, PhD, and David Margolis, MD, have shown that interval dosing of the drug Vorinostat reverses HIV latency and is well-tolerated in people living with HIV. However, while Vorinostat makes latent HIV easier to detect, it does not clear or deplete infection, meaning additional advances will be needed to achieve a cure.
YOUR HEALTH® featured Paul Chelminski, MD, MPH, a professor of general medicine and director of UNC’s physician assistant program, on WCHL 97.9.
Congratulations to department of medicine providers who received the 2017 UNC Health Care and UNC Faculty Physicians Award for Carolina Care Excellence.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has renewed funding for the UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellows Program. This five-year grant (2017-2022) supports mentored training at 16 affiliated sites in low- and middle-income countries. All are affiliated with at least one of the UJMT consortium’s four U.S. institutions: UNC-Chapel Hill, Johns Hopkins University, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Tulane University.
UNC Professor of Medicine Joseph Eron, MD, from the division of infectious diseases, has been named Vice Chair of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG). The ACTG is the largest network of research sites in the world dedicated to finding a cure for HIV, as well as opportunistic infections that exploit a weakened immune system caused by HIV.
Sarah Smithson, MD, MPH, has published “Screening Adults for Depression in Primary Care” in the July issue of Medical Clinics of North America.
Recent work in the lab of Victoria Bautch, PhD, co-director of the UNC McAllister Heart Institute, sheds light on how trafficking proteins produced by endothelial cells blunt signaling proteins that control vessel growth and patterning, processes that affect disease.
Dr. Scott P. Commins was a guest on WUNC’s The State of Things on July 11, 2017. In his interview with Frank Stasio, Dr. Commins talked about piecing together the meat allergy puzzle.
Gerald Hladik, MD, chief of the division of nephrology and hypertension, has been featured in a Hospitals and Health Networks article explaining the need for early detection of kidney disease.
UNC Project Malawi is a partnership with the Malawi Ministry of Health focused on research, care and training in the capital city of Lilongwe. The project was featured on ABC-11 News.