UNC School of Medicine researchers Aravinda de Silva and Prem Lakshmanane and colleagues developed a COVID-19 test that pinpoints human antibodies specific to a particular part of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. The test can be ramped up to document past … Read more

Kidney disease is increasingly recognized as an important contributor to the global burden of disease, and surveys show there is a high level of perceived inadequacy in the pediatric nephrology workforce. Dorey Glenn, assistant professor of pediatric nephrology, has been working … Read more

In the largest study of its kind in any non-European population, an international team of researchers identified 301 distinct genetic signals at 183 loci, or specific positions on a chromosome, associated with type 2 diabetes in people from East Asia. … Read more

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has swept through the entire world, causing thousands of deaths and life-altering changes in our communities. Within the UNC School of Medicine research community of 28 basic science and … Read more

The cerebral cortex is the relatively thin, folded, outer “gray matter” layer of the brain crucial for thinking, information processing, memory, and attention. Not much has been revealed about the genetic underpinnings that influence the size of the cortex’s surface … Read more

“My first reaction when NASA reached out to me was to ask if I could visit the International Space Station to examine the patient myself,” said Dr. Stephan Moll, UNC School of Medicine blood clot expert and long-time NASA enthusiast. … Read more

Before the family separation policy of the Trump administration created a flash point in the ongoing immigration debate, state legislatures enacted more than 1,500 pieces of increasingly punitive immigration legislation dating back to 2005. In a research paper published in the Harvard … Read more

Thanks to the UNC Radiology Malawi Program, faculty and students at the UNC School of Medicine have been making strides to provide sustainable radiology technology to Lilongwe, Malawi. The program exists to provide radiologist support; technologist and radiographer education; development for working … Read more

Two researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have been named to a global consortium for Zika research and vaccine development. Aravinda de Silva, professor of microbiology and immunology, and Stefan Metz, a postdoctoral … Read more