Impact Stories

Stories that show how privately funded research, programs and initiatives are making a difference.

Carolina Stories

Professor Flavio Frohlich faces the camera seated at a desk wearing tACS head-gear

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Top 12 Carolina Stories 2025

A violinist plays in an auditorium while a person wears a cap with multiple sensors during a brain mapping performance.

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When music meets the mind

Dan Reuland

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Reuland Awarded Robert A. Ingram Distinguished Professorship

Klaus Hahn

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Hahn Awarded CZI Grant to Monitor, Manipulate Proteins Important in Nervous System Function, Neurological Disease

Tim Willson stands with arms crossed with lab equipment in the background.

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Bringing the dark proteome into the light

Portrait of Aziz Sancar.

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Killing cancerous brain cells

Rich Preyer and Marilyn Jacobs Preyer

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Reducing breast cancer disparities and barriers to care

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A prestigious professorship

Chad Pecot stands speaking in lab, while a woman works at a workbench.

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Muting genetic mutations

A photo of Nancy and Bill Graham with Lisa Carey, MD, FASCO.

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Grateful patient and husband establish breast cancer research fund

Shelley Earp unc Lineberger

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Advancing Cancer Research and Care Across Carolina and the Globe

David Hesmer smiles in the Hingtgen lab.

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From cancer patient to volunteer