The Sciences of Schizophrenia
March 19, 2024
Rose Mary Xavier uses her multidisciplinary background to improve research access and clinical care for patients with severe schizophrenia.
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Hope for “Butterflies”
September 27, 2023
The UNC Turner Syndrome Clinic provides multidisciplinary care to improve the lives of patients, also known as “butterflies.”
RUNC: Cheerag Upadhyaya
June 14, 2023
Cheerag Upadhyaya works to improve outcomes for surgical patients.
Taking Care of Moms
May 11, 2023
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
February 16, 2023
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
March 18, 2022
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
February 23, 2022
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.
Dain Ruiz
June 23, 2021
Dain Ruiz is a rising sophomore majoring in biology and a Chancellor’s Science Scholar within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences. He studies expansion disorders caused by repetitions in DNA — like Huntington’s Disease, Friedreich’s Ataxia, and Myotonic Dystrophy — to develop therapeutics to treat them.