April 5, 2023 Several UNC School of Medicine faculty members were a part of three interdisciplinary research projects awarded $25,000 pilot grants through the UNC Autism Research Center. Last week, the Autism Research Center awarded three $25,000 pilot grants to … Read more
The most recent work by the interim director of FPG Institute and education professor focuses on Black families’ experiences. UNC School of Education, Monday, April 3rd, 2023 For more than 20 years, Brian Boyd has dedicated his career to ensuring high-quality … Read more
Brenna Maddox, Ph.D., at the UNC School of Medicine, will lead a study to help autistic adults, clinicians, and other key stakeholders select which mental health intervention is the best fit for individual patients. Brenna Maddox, PhD CHAPEL HILL, NC … Read more
Joe Piven, MD, the Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, co-presented an overview of autism research in older populations before the US DHHS Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. Joseph Piven, MD (photo by Chad David Kraus) Autism is often thought … Read more
Eva Anton, Ph.D., professor of cell biology and physiology and member of the UNC Neuroscience Center, received an NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award to study the underpinnings of brain malformations and neurodevelopmental disorders. Eva Anton, PhD On the surface neurons … Read more
Four faculty members honored with distinguished professor and faculty scholar titles From left to right: Gary Stuck, Malbert Smith, Kin White, Nianbo Dong, Fouad Abd-El-Khalick, Ethan Hutt, Kara Hume, Brian Boyd, and Sharon Coop The UNC School of Education … Read more
Joe Piven, MD, director of the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, is the principal investigator on a 5-year, $12-million NIH grant for the Brain and Behavior Study of ASD from Infancy through Adolescence, led by UNC School of Medicine researchers. … Read more
Assistant Professor Jose Rodríguez-Romaguera, PhD, has been awarded the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation 2022 Young Investigator Award. The Foundation’s grants provide scientists with up to $70,000 to advance research focused on mental illness. Jose Rodríguez-Romaguera, PhD Assistant Professor Jose Rodríguez-Romaguera, … Read more
CARY, N.C. — Growing up Becca Alley always felt different from others. She just didn’t have a label for herself. “The Shania Twain song like ‘I feel like a woman’. I’m like ‘I don’t know what that means really,” said Alley. … Read more
This research, led by Jessica Girault, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, was conducted as part of the NIH-funded Infant Brain Imaging Study Network, which used MRI to document crucial differences in the visual processing system in the brains … Read more