April 29, 2024 Students at the Gillings School have selected five faculty members to honor for teaching innovation in the classroom, including Drs. Bahjat Qaqish, Amanda Northcross, Yesenia Merino, Caroline Chandler and Jan Lee Santos.
April 4, 2024 Dr. Tanya Garcia has been honored with the 2024 Gertrude M. Cox Award by the Washington Statistical Society and RTI International.
February 5, 2024 Biostatistics doctoral students Yangjianchen Xu and Justin DeMonte won the Distinguished Student Paper Award, presented by the Eastern North America Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric Society.
January 16, 2024 In a study of more than 500 people treated for advanced colorectal cancer, UNC researchers report that Black patients showed a distinctly different pattern of gene mutations compared to white patients.
December 14, 2023 As part of the eighth round of Gillings Innovation Labs, six faculty members were awarded $100,000 each to pursue research using generative artificial intelligence (gAI) that focuses on solving real-world problems over the next two years.
October 3, 2023 The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health has been selected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop a five-year work plan for a future Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response coordinating center, to be established in 2024.
September 27, 2023 Opportunity in biostatistics is booming in North Carolina and across the nation. Expertise in the analysis of data related to biology and health sciences supports a broad range of activities, from environmental health research and clinical trials of cancer treatments to analysis for litigation, and biostatistics degree holders work in the nonprofit, government and pharmaceutical sectors as well as at tech giants like Google and Microsoft.
September 21, 2023 New research conducted by the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Cleveland Clinic shows that ritonavir-boosted nirmatrelvir (Paxlovid) and molnupiravir (Lagevrio) substantially reduced COVID-19 hospitalization and death among high-risk patients, even against the most recent Omicron subvariants BQ.1.1 and XBB.1.5.
August 4, 2023 For 14 years, the Gillings School, Merck and NCI have leveraged an enduring collaboration to improve the efficiency of drug development, allowing safe and effective medications to reach patients sooner and make a significant impact on public health.
July 28, 2023 The Gillings School has appointed Dr. Michael Hudgens as chair of the Department of Biostatistics, effective August 1. He has been on faculty in the department since 2004 and has served as associate chair since 2021.
