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New Grant Awarded to Improve Post-Discharge Stroke Care

March 24, 2025
Faculty within ºÚÁÏÍø Neurology collaborated with the Comprehensive Stroke Center + the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) to submit a proposal to NC Department of Human Health Services to improve post-discharge stroke care. The Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Program aims to provide funds to private, public, and...

New ºÚÁÏÍø Whole Brain Health Program receives funding!

September 5, 2024
The ºÚÁÏÍø Whole Brian Health Program (WBHP) has been awarded funding from the Health Resources and services Administration (HRSA) via a Transition for Youth with Autism and/or Epilepsy Demonstration Project. This funding award will provide $2,248,752 over the course of 5 years to expand the existing ºÚÁÏÍø Neurology Transition to...

Dr. Monica Maria Diaz highlighted by University of California Global Health Institute

December 15, 2023
Sharing from the University of California’s Global Health Institute: Dr. Stephen Ojiambo Wandera and Dr. Monica Maria Diaz at Makerere University. “The GloCal Health Fellowship is excited to share that two of its alumni are collaborating on a new research study to assess dementia and frailty among older persons in...

Hwang Receives Grant to Study Emotional Support Intervention for Caregivers of Patients Surviving ICU Admission for Coma

August 18, 2023
A $100,000 grant from the Neurocritical Care Foundation has been awarded to David Y. Hwang MD, FAAN, FCCM, FNCS, division chief of neurocritical care in the Department of Neurology at the ºÚÁÏÍø, and colleagues to research an intervention to support family caregivers of patients surviving ICU admission...

Dr. Shih Receives a $2.4M Grant for Brain Imaging Techniques

August 18, 2023
ºÚÁÏÍø Neurology Researcher Dr. Ian Shih Receives a $2.4M NIH Grant to Improve Functional Brain Imaging Techniques! Dr. Ian Shih, Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the ºÚÁÏÍø Department of Neurology, has been awarded a $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to transform functional magnetic...

ºÚÁÏÍø researchers secure more than $1B in funding for third consecutive year

July 23, 2022
Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill continues to grow, bringing in more than $1.2 billion in funding awards during the 2022 fiscal year. This is the third year in a row that research awards have topped $1 billion, facilitating research projects and experiments for external sponsors like...

Traub and Li awarded $5K-50K NC TraCS grant

March 1, 2022
NC TraCS awarded funding for a $5K-$50K grant application submitted by Rebecca Traub, MD and Xiaoyan Li, MD, PhD.

Shih awarded $5K-50K NC TraCS grant

May 14, 2021
NC TraCS awarded funding for a $5K-$50K grant application submitted by Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD.

Center for Animal MRI at BRIC Receives NIH Grants to Upgrade Facilities

November 3, 2020
The Center for Animal MRI (CAMRI) at the Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), led by Ian Shih, PhD, received two National Institutes of Health grants totaling $2.6 million for a new MRI instrument and to upgrade an existing MRI system.