A principal investigator of the study is UNC’s Dr. Paul Chelminski, from the division of general medicine and clinical epidemiology, who has extensive experience studying best practices of prescribing and managing long-term opioid use.
Speaker: Jeff Holmes, M.D., Ph.D.Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Medicine, University of VirginiaTopic: Scar Formation After Myocardial Infarction: What Happens, Why does it Matter, and What Can We Do about It?”
Lupus patients who previously needed to visit an infusion center to receive the drug Benlysta, now have the option to administer the medicine themselves at home using a novel “auto-injector” device, thanks in part to the efforts of Dr. Saira Sheikh, a UNC rheumatologist and allergist/immunologist who directs the lupus and clinical trials programs at the UNC Thurston Arthritis Research Center.
Roy Williams is entering his 15th season as head coach of the Tar Heels. He has achieved great success on the court, winning his third NCAA title in 2017, appearing in nine Final Fours (five with UNC) and earning eight Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season titles. Even greater is the impact he makes on the lives … Read more
Hepatitis C virus is a curable infectious disease, but treatment remains unavailable in resource-limited settings like the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The DRC Ministry of Health asked the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) to help determine the burden of infection and find a way to connect people infected with the virus to treatment. Using laboratory equipment readily available in developing countries, researchers from UNC and Abbott Diagnostics were able to define and map the burden of disease in the DRC. Their findings were published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Members of the military and veterans are disproportionally affected by pain, and the government is searching for ways to help them deal with this widespread and growing problem. New research being conducted thanks to multiple grants recently awarded by the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US Department of Defense, and the US Veterans Administration will investigate the feasibility, safety and effectiveness for a number of non-drug approaches for pain management and related conditions.
Speaker: Hong Chen, PhD, Associate Professor Dept. of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s HospitalTopic: Molecular Mechanisms Regulating VEGF Receptor Trafficking
Speaker: Craig R. Lee, Pharm.D., Ph.D., FCCP, FAHA. Associate Professor of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, UNC Eshelman School of PharmacyTopic: Clinical outcomes and sustainability of using CYP2C19 genotype-guided antiplatelet therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention
In lab experiments and animal models, UNC and NC State researchers led by Zhen Gu, PhD, designed synthetic beta cells to secrete insulin in response to high blood sugar.
A study co-authored by Rick Stouffer, III, MD, the Henry A. Foscue Distinguished Professor of Medicine, chief of cardiology at UNC, highlights potential of personalized medicine in patients with cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Styner conducts translational experiments applying running exercise in obese as well as calorie-restricted mice to understand the relationship between bone fat and bone quantity. Her background in Endocrinology and skeletal biology, combined with an interest in exercise physiology, makes this an exciting venue for research into diet and exercise, which may be the most … Read more
The American Society of Nephrology presents Department of Medicine Chair Ronald J. Falk, MD, FASN, with the John P. Peters Award this Saturday, November 4, 2017.