health

Cassandra Myers

Cassandra Myers

Cassandra Myers is the director of the Office of Human Research Ethics within the UNC...
South Building on UNC's campus

A Leading Research Institution

University Research Week, November 4-8, is an annual celebration of Carolina’s research excellence and an...

Mending Broken Hearts

Heart disease is the number-one killer in the U.S. — but what if there was...
Vaishnavi Siripurapu

The Road to Reproductive Health

By the time she was 14 years old, Vaishnavi Siripurapu had already developed a passion...
Don Fejfar

Donald Fejfar

Don Fejfar is a junior and Morehead-Cain Scholar majoring in biostatistics within the UNC Gillings...
Julianna Prim places nodes on a patient's head

Julianna Prim

Julianna Prim is a PhD student in the Human Movement Science Curriculum within the Department...

Tuned into Neuroscience

There are a host of ways neuroscientists can study the brain. Some analyze its chemistry...
Deb Tate (right) speaks with a young woman holding an iPad with the mPWR app on it in an exam room

One Size Won’t Fit All

Nearly 35 percent of Americans are considered obese — a diagnosis that has become so...

The Known Unknowns

In 2016, a group of North Carolina researchers published evidence of high rates of PFAS...