UNC School of Medicine
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.
Teachers for Mental Health
May 18, 2023
By combining best practices in education and mental health care, Christina Cruz works to enhance interventions for elementary-aged patients before concerns become crises.
RUNC: Toshihide Hige
May 17, 2023
Toshihide Hige wants to unlock the brain’s secrets for learning and memory.
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.
Tracking SARS-CoV-2 Variants
March 18, 2021
SARS-CoV-2 variants may seem like a scary new chapter in the pandemic, but coronavirus experts expected their arrival. Scientists in the UNC School of Medicine and Gillings School of Global Public Health are tracking the variants to learn how they differ and affect the world’s chance of ending this pandemic.
READDI, Not Reactive
January 19, 2021
For decades, scientists warned of the potential for a global coronavirus outbreak. But when SARS-CoV-2 emerged, no therapeutics, drugs, or vaccines were readily available. The Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative (READDI) — founded by researchers at UNC and the Structural Genomics Consortium — is not only finding solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, but also drugs and therapeutics for future viral outbreaks.