
Category: Grants



UNC lung researchers awarded $12.5-million NIH grant to develop new...
The National Institutes of Health has awarded four UNC experts a translational program project grant (tPPG) to develop and test therapeutics aimed at reducing the hyper-concentration of mucus often found in cystic fibrosis and asthma patients.
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NIH grant to help UNC researchers explore microRNA as route to Alzh...
The National Institute on Aging awarded a $2.6-million, five-year grant to UNC’s Mohanish Deshmukh’s lab to explore miR-29, a key molecule that helps mature brain cells avoid death.



UNC neuroscientist earns NSF grant to build a better way to explore...
Spencer Smith, PhD, received one of 36 NSF grants to create better technologies to advance our knowledge of how the brain works in normal circumstances and in disease states.

New grant helps foster diversity at UNC School of Medicine
The IMSD program attracts underrepresented students in the biomedical sciences

UNC partners with FDA, NIH to create Tobacco Centers of Regulatory ...
Research from new programs to inform potential tobacco regulatory activities

NIH awards $4 million grant to UNC and Egan for lung transplant res...
This three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health will fund a clinical trial to study assessment and transplantation of lungs from victims of sudden death.


Baric and Heise receive $21.4M from NIAID to study life-threatening...
Scientists at UNC’s schools of public health and medicine will lead a five-year, $21.4 million research study that could result in more effective treatments for life-threatening virus infections of the lung and central nervous system.