Wesley Burks, MD, was a principal investigator on the phase 3 PALISADE trial to determine the efficacy of the AR101 oral immunotherapy developed by Aimmune Therapeutics for people allergic to peanuts.
Jonathan Juliano, MD, MSPH, associate professor of medicine, has been asked to join the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network’s (WWARN) Scientific Advisory Committee.
The UNC Center for Health Innovation has announced winning teams for the sixth annual Pilot Innovation Awards. Evan Dellon, MD, from the department of medicine’s division of gastroenterology and hepatobiology is principal investigator for a team that will study a treatment for eosinophilic esophagitis. To date, nine winning teams from the department of medicine have received Pilot Innovation Awards.
Marian Sue Kirkman, MD, professor of medicine and medical director of the UNC Diabetes Care Center’s Clinical Trials Unit, has been appointed chair of the National Diabetes Education Program. Kirkman’s term as chair began on January 1, 2018.
Speaker: Kenneth Walsh, PhD, Lockhart B. McGuire Professor, Director of Hematovascular Biology Center, University of VirginiaTopic: “Clonal Hematopoiesis and Cardiovascular Disease: New Mechanisms, New Therapeutic Opportunities”
Speakers: Jason Doherty, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School and Chris Morrison from ViaVerus, LLC, Topic: “Tapping the Entrepreneurial Spirit”
In the organization’s annual rankings of “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” U.S. News & World Report ranked UNC School of Medicine 1st in primary care–a distinction that includes general medicine and geriatrics in the department of medicine, as well as the department of family medicine.
Drug allergies–in particular allergy to beta-lactam antibiotics–affects as many as 15% of all hospitalized patients. There is a growing pool of data demonstrating the significant effect a drug allergy diagnosis can have on morbidity and mortality of the hospitalized patient, as well as the immense cost it can add to the health care system. A … Read more
Speaker: Joan Taylor, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair for Research in Pathology and Lab Medicine, UNC School of MedicineTopic: “GRAFs mind the GAP between muscle fate and function” Seminar Synopsis: The overall goal of our research is to characterize the intracellular signaling pathways that govern normal and aberrant growth responses in the cardiovascular and musculoskeletal … Read more
March is Kidney Awareness Month–the time to highlight a disease that affects more than 30 million Americans. It’s important to know the risk factors of chronic kidney disease, like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and family history of kidney disease, among others. Kidney disease can also be caused by glomerular diseases, autoimmune disease, or can be a genetic disease. Kidney disease usually has no early symptoms. Therefore, it’s important to be tested. While there is often no cure, it can be treated, and many cases of kidney disease are preventable.
Speaker: Joshua Vega, UNC Cardiology FellowTopic: “UNC Project Health for Leon: A Joint Mission for Global Health”
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the umbrella term for the group of tobacco-related lung diseases including emphysema and chronic bronchitis. COPD is the third leading cause of death in the United States, with an estimated 650,000 North Carolinians living with COPD. Recent guidelines have proposed a multidimensional assessment to define disease control and inform … Read more