The HIV Medicine Association, or HIVMA, honored UNC infectious diseases professor Ada Adimora, MD, MPH, with its 2020 Clinical Educator Award. The award, presented during the annual IDWeek conference, recognizes Adimora’s “extraordinary contributions to advancing clinical education, with a focus on disseminating her research on the drivers of HIV-related racial disparities.” Read more from the … Read more

Emily Ciccone, MD, MHS, infectious diseases fellow and pediatric medicine instructor, recently won first prize in the clinical research award session of the 2020 annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The award recognizes excellence in clinical research by young investigators. Ciccone’s winning project is “Potential use of rapid, point-of-care diagnostics … Read more

Women with a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer, known as HER2-positive disease, now have unique options that can help tailor their treatment more effectively. Based on results from a phase III clinical trial that followed women for seven years and was conducted at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and other cancer centers nationwide, … Read more

A team of investigators from UNC’s Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases has been awarded $1.5 million from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a two-year implementation science study to scale up COVID-19 testing in North Carolina. “We want to improve access to testing for underserved rural and urban communities being missed by … Read more

Myron S. Cohen, MD, director of UNC’s Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, and Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, director of ICAP at Columbia University, have received a seven-year award from the National Institutes of Health for leadership of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) in collaboration with FHI 360. The first year of support … Read more

The National Institutes of Health has awarded University of North Carolina’s Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases nearly $25 million over seven years to continue operating its Global HIV Clinical Trials Unit, or CTU. The new funding will support HIV treatment and prevention in adults, children and pregnant women at four research sites — … Read more

WTVD-11 News reports how the UK’s approval of the Pfizer vaccine could benefit North Carolina and asks who will get the vaccine first. Myron Cohen, MD, the Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the division of infectious diseases, tells WTVD-11 that the coming winter will be difficult. “I think everybody is forewarning that the spike … Read more

Katherine Reeder-Hayes, MD, MSc, MBA, associate professor and chief of breast oncology in the Department of Medicine and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Stephanie Wheeler, PhD, MPH, professor of health policy and management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and associate director of Community Outreach and Engagement at UNC Lineberger, … Read more

Medical Research.com interviewed William Wood, MD, associate professor in the division of hematology, about an outcome report published in the American Society of Hematology’s Blood Advances.  The report describes the first 250 cases of patients with hematologic malignancy and COVID-19 that were entered into the ASH Research Collaborative COVID-19 Registry. Find the interview here. Find … Read more

Charlotte’s WBTV News interviewed Cindy Gay, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, for an update on the COVID vaccine trials. Gay shared her enthusiasm and confidence in the latest data. Watch the interview here.

WTVD-11 reports this Thanksgiving is the first major holiday for thousands of families in North Carolina and the hundreds of thousands across the country grieving loved ones lost to COVID-19. Their empty chairs will be apparent, as will the void in their loved ones’ hearts. Shannon Carson, MD, chief of the division of pulmonary and … Read more

Health experts are warning that the holiday season poses an increased COVID-19 threat to older Americans, who are already one of the most vulnerable demographics. Christine Kistler, MD, associate professor of geriatric and family medicine, identified large gatherings as a key risk factor in the upcoming holiday season that will contribute to an increase in … Read more