RUNC: Jasmine King
Jasmine King reprograms cells to treat brain cancer.
medicine
The Sciences of Schizophrenia
Rose Mary Xavier uses her multidisciplinary background to improve research access and clinical care for patients with severe schizophrenia.
RUNC: Sarah Nyante
Sarah Nyante uses imaging to understand cancer risk.
RUNC: Matthew Lu
Matthew Lu aids vaccine development for chlamydia.
Hope for “Butterflies”
The UNC Turner Syndrome Clinic provides multidisciplinary care to improve the lives of patients, also known as “butterflies.”
RUNC: Cheerag Upadhyaya
Cheerag Upadhyaya works to improve outcomes for surgical patients.
Taking Care of Moms
Mary Kimmel is a physician researcher, advocate, and mom dedicated to changing the way mothers who need mental health care are perceived and treated.
Math-Age Daydream
The mathematical puzzles that arise when modeling neurodegenerative diseases fascinate Tanya Garcia, who hopes to solve them to speed treatment development.
Teaching Teens to Love Themselves
Karen Bluth has a mission to teach youth how to be compassionate with themselves. As a psychiatry professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, she researches how effective self-compassion practices are at improving the depression and anxiety of transgender teenagers.
Luca Maini
Luca Maini is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences. He studies how drug manufacturers compete and how the government regulates prices to get needed drugs into the hands of as many patients as possible.