UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and critical care experts Dr. William Fischer Dr. David Wohl, in collaboration with UNC Hospitals colleagues, will lead a Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center funded through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response.
A protein that helps make neurons also works to reprogram scar tissue cells into heart muscle cells, especially in partnership with a second protein, according to a study led by Li Qian at the UNC School of Medicine.
The vaping prevention video ads, produced by the Food and Drug Administration, also lowered openness to cigarette smoking.
Beka Layton, Alli Schad and UNC School of Medicine colleagues published a study in eLife on mental health disparities among biomedical graduate and medical students from historically excluded groups.