Medical school uses innovative approach in Asheville
This collaboration with Mission Health and Mountain Area Health Education Center builds close-knit relationships over time.
UNC-Chapel Hill is part of exciting collaboration across the University of North Carolina System, partnering with other universities on groundbreaking research and innovative educational programs. The result is a stronger North Carolina from the mountains to the coast.
Keep reading to learn more about how Carolina is working with other institutions around the state.
Sharing the vast expertise at UNC-Chapel Hill and learning from researchers at other institutions is critical to creating a better future for North Carolina. That includes everything from the NC TraCS Institute, a translational sciences partnership with NC State and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, to the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, where researchers from Carolina, NC State and NC Central work with Duke University to advance the frontiers of nuclear physics and educate the next generation of scientists.
A key educational collaboration is the Joint Biomedical Engineering Department, hosted by UNC Health, the School of Medicine and the College of Arts and Sciences in partnership with the College of Engineering at NC State. The program provides students and researchers an environment to integrate engineering and medicine to improve human health and quality of life.
It allows students like Sunita Agarwala to graduate with their dream degree. Agarwala, a junior and Air Force cadet, is taking classes at both schools and plans to use biomedical technology to improve the lives of those with disabilities.
The joint effort has also developed technology for startups like SonoVascular, a med-tech company that combines drug-based and mechanical therapies to treat blood clots in a unique way. The work is a product of a long-running research collaboration between Xiaoning Jiang, Dean F. Duncan Distinguished Professor in the NC State University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Paul Dayton, William R. Kenan Distinguished Professor and Chair of the BME. They serve as scientific advisers to SonoVascular.
This collaboration with Mission Health and Mountain Area Health Education Center builds close-knit relationships over time.
Part of Whole Community Connection, the project draws on resources at Carolina, UNC Pembroke and the local community.
Visit the Carolina Community Academy, a Carolina-led lab school serving students in Roxboro’s North Elementary School.
The North Carolina Collaboratory provides a way for schools across the UNC System to share policy and research expertise. Formed in 2016 by the North Carolina General Assembly, the first-of-its-kind program has supported work on topics like the environment and COVID-19 for practical use by state and local government. The Collaboratory is housed at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Epidemiologist Nabarun Dasgupta and his team analyze street drugs and alert communities about dangers.
Researchers at the North Carolina Collaboratory apply their academic research to find innovative, real-world solutions in service to the people of North Carolina.
Rose Houck ’25 uses her knowledge from her Carolina courses to research water quality and flood resiliency issues in our state with the North Carolina Collaboratory.