Impact Stories

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

Carolina Stories

Caroline Robinson stands outside the FedEx Global Education Center at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Graduating college as a student and former patient

Dan Reuland

3 min read

Reuland Awarded Robert A. Ingram Distinguished Professorship

Five individuals posing in front of sign reading "The Be Loud! Center for Young Adult Cancer Care."

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Be Loud! Center is elevating cancer care for young adults at UNC

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.

3 min read

Bringing the dark proteome into the light

Portrait of Aziz Sancar.

2 min read

Killing cancerous brain cells

Rich Preyer and Marilyn Jacobs Preyer

1 min read

Reducing breast cancer disparities and barriers to care

2 min read

A prestigious professorship

Person sitting in a chair, working on laptop in the Launch Chapel Hill space.

2 min read

Launching local innovation

Two people stand in outdoor hallway of a building.

2 min read

A convergent code

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

1 min read

Muting genetic mutations

Office space with a "Chapel Hill" light-up sign on the wall.

2 min read

Launching into the future