Monthly Archives: June 2009

UNC scientists tackle viral mysteries

Chapel Hill, NC – Scientists know that some cancers are triggered by viruses, which take over cellular systems and cause uncontrolled cell growth.  Doctors – and patients who get shingles late in life – have also known for many years … Read More

USAID awards $8.5 million to UNC water and sanitation project in Southeast Asia

A program started at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received an award of up to $8.5 million over five years from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The funding will help expand a project to … Read More

My recent trip to Nicaragua

June 2009 By Myron S. Cohen, MD, Director of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases A UNC delegation visits Nicaragua and lays the groundwork for future programs. Earlier this month I had the pleasure of joining a UNC … Read More

Center for AIDS Research announces eight recipients of developmental awards

The UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) has awarded eight investigators with 2009 Developmental Awards. The CFAR Developmental Core provides small awards (typically up to $20,000) for one year for HIV research. The awards are given to established HIV researchers … Read More

UNC’s first Doris Duke International Fellows return from China and Malawi

Three medical students, including one from UNC-Chapel Hill, have recently returned from a year of clinical research in China and Malawi. The three are the first to be awarded UNC’s Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowship (ICRF). UNC is one … Read More

UNC Project-Malawi honors beloved former lab director with new center

UNC has just opened a new malaria vaccine research center at the Area 18 Health Center in Lilongwe, Malawi and named it the George Joaki Centre. The research center will be used for an international malaria vaccine trial, the first … Read More

UNC infectious disease fellow Jessica Lin makes a first for ID fellowship program

January 5, 2009 — Jessica Lin, a Maryland native who will be starting as an infectious diseases fellow in the fall, has been awarded a Pfizer Centennial Travel Award in Basic Science Tropical Disease Research from the American Society of … Read More