NIH Coverage

How they voted: NC congressional votes for the week ending March 7

A look at how North Carolina members of Congress voted during the previous week.

Targeted News Service

How they voted: NC congressional votes for the week ending Nov. 9

A look at how North Carolina members of Congress voted during the previous week.

Targeted News Service

What you need to know about the FDA's proposed ban of brominated vegetable oil

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By Katia Hetter, CNN

Loss of funding creates uncertain future for Undiagnosed Diseases Network at Duke

A lack of funding from the National Institutes of Health leaves the future of Undiagnosed Diseases Network clinics uncertain.

Monica Casey, WRAL Durham reporter

Raleigh pharma startup taps NIH for another round of funding

Over the last several months, Raleigh-based Collaborations Pharmaceuticals has obtained funding from two research arms of the National Institutes of Health to support its machine learning applications in drug discovery research.

NIH director Francis Collins - a UNC-CH graduate - is stepping down

Dr. Francis Collins, the folksy, guitar-playing director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is planning to step down Tuesday as head of the gigantic research agency and return to his previous job as the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute,

Durham pharma company Praetego Inc wins $460,000 funding award from NIH

A Durham-based pharma company will use new funding, awarded by the NIH, to extend preclinical investigation of a leading drug candidate that could prevent progression of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease.

NC A&T associate dean for research and innovation lands $1.7M NIH grant

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $1.74 million research grant to study diabetic kidney disease to Elimelda Moige Ongeri, Ph.D., a professor and associate dean for research and innovation at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.

NIH selects NC town for pilot at-home COVID-19 testing program

Pitt County is one of two communities in the country that are part of a national study on ramping up at-home testing for COVID-19.

At-home coronavirus testing experiment comes to Pitt County

Pitt County is one of two communities in the country that are part of a national study on ramping up at-home testing for COVID-19.

Keenan Willard, WRAL Eastern North Carolina reporter

Mouth may be key in transmitting COVID-19 causing virus to rest of body, UNC-NIH study finds

A new study's findings point to the possibility that the mouth plays a role in transmitting SARS-CoV-2 to the lungs or digestive system via saliva laden with virus from infected oral cells. A better understanding of the mouth’s involvement could inform strategies to reduce viral transmission within and outside the body.

US could approve Pfizer vaccine on Friday, begin distribution

Thursday morning, the Advisory Committee tasked with granting Emergency Use Authorization for the Pfizer vaccine convenes. Soon, the US could be distributing the vaccine. Dr. Michael Kurilla, a Duke University graduate, works at the National Institute of Health overseeing a program meant to get more treatments to patients quickly.

Trump participates in coronavirus briefing

President Trump is part of a roundtable briefing concerning the coronavirus at the National institutes of Health.

Volunteers at Duke, other sites to be paid $3,300 to be deliberately infected with flu virus

Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases are infecting willing subjects with influenza A (the infamous H1N1 virus, which has caused pandemics) and closely monitoring their symptoms to better understand how the virus works and how to control it. One site included in the program is Duke University.

RTP drug startup Dignify Therapeutics lands its 11th federal grant in five years

Dignify Therapeutics, a virtual drug development company in Research Triangle Park, continues to secure federal government grants. Here's a look at the company.

What causes this 'disease of children'?

Investigators are trying to find out what's causing a mysterious illness that's paralyzing children.

What causes this 'disease of children'?

Investigators are trying to find out what's causing a mysterious illness that's paralyzing children.