Twenty-one UNC School of Medicine and 17 other UNC-Chapel Hill researchers have been named in Clarivate’s 2020 list of Highly Cited Researchers™, scientific pioneers from around the world whose names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top … Read more

The majority of pediatric cancers cases worldwide occur in low to middle-income countries. This can present significant medical challenges because these countries may have a scarcity or outright lack of trained pediatric cancer care providers. UNC Lineberger’s Dr. Thomas Alexander, and … Read more

A team of UNC researchers is partnering with colleagues at four institutions in Africa to study HIV-associated malignancies. With a five-year, $6 million grant from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute, the research consortium will look at screening and diagnosing innovations … Read more

The UNC Department of Radiology collaborates with the University of Nairobi (UoN) in Kenya. As a result of this partnership, UoN recently established the nation’s first interventional radiology fellowship, which will intake its inaugural class of Kenyan trainees later this … Read more

William Fischer, and Helen Lazear, earned Jefferson-Pilot Fellowships in Academic Medicine from the UNC School of Medicine for their infectious diseases research and clinical care. William Fischer, assistant professor in division of pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine in the … Read more

Wesley Fowler, associate dean for Medical Alumni Affairs and professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; and Myron Cohen, Yeargan-Bate Distinguished professor of medicine, Microbiology, and Immunology and Epidemiology, associate vice chancellor for Global Health, and director of the Institute for Global … Read more

The Royal Society of Biology, a professional society representing members of the biological sciences in the United Kingdom, has elected Sunil Kumar, PhD. postdoctoral associate at UNC Lineberger, as a member. The society awarded Kumar the status of “chartered biologist” and … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has expanded its partnership with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua-León (UNAN), which since 2003 has encompassed the exchange of research, faculty, and clinical learners, to now include the development of a … Read more

Doctor Sameer Arora, a UNC School of Medicine cardiology fellow, is leading a study reviewing hospitalizations for a certain type of heart attack in two hospitals in northern India. This is the first prospective cohort study of this magnitude in … Read more

Researchers led by Ron Swanstrom in the UNC School of Medicine and colleagues in South Africa discovered that the latent HIV reservoir that persists during antiretroviral treatment mostly reflects viruses present in the blood at the start of antiretroviral treatment. … Read more