health

Timothy Sheahan

Carolina’s Coronavirus Lab

UNC virologists Timothy Sheahan and Ralph Baric have been working around the clock to develop...

Doing COVID-19 Dirty Work

Employing wastewater epidemiology — proven useful in outbreaks of polio and opioid use — UNC...
Clare Harrop

Clare Harrop

Clare Harrop is a research assistant professor in the Department of Allied Health Sciences within...
Baba Mass

Baba Mass

Baba Mass is a research technician in the Voruganti Lab within the UNC Nutrition Research...
a cutting board with a DNA strand made out of food

Unlocking the Genetics of Eating Disorders

Eating disorders have long been discussed in strictly psychiatric terms, but a study from the...

Taking a Bite Out of Meat Allergies

Food allergies have long baffled scientists — much is still to be learned about how they...
Claudio Battagliniat at the Exercise Oncology Research Laboratory in Fetzer Hall on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill

Claudio Battaglini

Claudio Battaglini is a professor of exercise physiology in the Department of Exercise and Sport...
Nilu Goonetilleke

Nilu Goonetilleke

Nilu Goonetilleke is an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology within the...
Research technician Katherine Sholtis completes HIV assays

Expecting the Unexpected

After Myron Cohen watched the first patient at UNC Hospitals die from AIDS in 1982...