The Children’s Advocate
March 10, 2023
Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens has spent her career researching hard-hitting issues in children’s health care and has changed the way doctors think about puberty.
Health
Health: Conquering Physical, Mental, and Public Challenges
RUNC: Daniel Gonzalez
February 23, 2023
Daniel Gonzalez works to improve medication dosing in children.
Math-Age Daydream
February 16, 2023
The mathematical puzzles that arise when modeling neurodegenerative diseases fascinate Tanya Garcia, who hopes to solve them to speed treatment development.
The Optimistic Nutritionist
October 20, 2022
Saroja Voruganti uses genetics to improve people’s nutrition — and she’s helping the next generation of scientists do the same.
Burdens of Paradise
September 27, 2022
A broad study looking at food and water insecurity in the Galápagos brings together a team of researchers to focus on an often-overlooked population.
Championing Public Health
September 26, 2022
The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health has been addressing the world’s biggest challenges for more than 80 years.
Slowly, Then All at Once
June 20, 2022
Shekinah Elmore’s road to radiation oncology was long, exhausting, and unexpected.
Infusing Hope for Hemophilia
June 14, 2022
A gene therapy clinical trial for hemophilia shows promise and could be approved by the FDA later this year — a feat made possible, in part, by UNC-Chapel Hill's 70-year-old research program
Sahar Ahmad
June 8, 2022
Sahar Ahmad is a postdoctoral researcher in the Biomedical Research Imaging Center within the UNC School of Medicine. She uses neuroimaging to research brain development across the human lifespan.