Health Sciences Archives

Jul 19, 2021
  • Matt Smith

Biotechnology center grant funds cancer compound research

A compound developed by an associate professor at East Carolina University could lead to more effective skin cancer treatments.  Dr. Rukiyah Van Dross-Anderson, a faculty member in the Brody School of Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology...

Jul 12, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Christian Penister

Christian Penister’s admiration for his childhood dentist and desire to provide care for the underserved led him to dentistry. Penister, a third-year student in East Carolina University’s School of Dental...

Jul 01, 2021
  • Natalie Sayewich

EMERGENCY EDUCATION

UPDATE, JANUARY 2022: The certificate program referenced in the story below was approved by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and is now accepting applications. All...

Jun 30, 2021
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Dr. Pamela Reis

A car crash changed the future for East Carolina University’s Dr. Pamela Reis — and the future of thousands of students, mothers and their babies. “I was in a car...

Jun 29, 2021
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

CONNECTING PAST & PRESENT

Living through a pandemic isn't just the stuff of history books anymore. Now, visitors to the country’s oldest museum dedicated to rural health care can connect on a more personal...

Jun 28, 2021
  • Matt Smith

ECU researcher lands featured journal cover story

East Carolina University research instructor Tracey Woodlief made the cover of the journal Toxics for her work with the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology’s DeWitt Lab researching the effects of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — also...

Jun 23, 2021
  • ECU News Services

ECU, VIDANT TO CLINICALLY INTEGRATE

East Carolina University will move toward full clinical integration with Vidant Health and the creation of a distinctive health system brand – ECU Health or similar branding – to serve...

Jun 17, 2021
  • Matt Smith

EXEMPLARY SERVICE

The North Carolina Agromedicine Institute has been nationally recognized for an exemplary project by the Engagement Scholarship Consortium. An inter-institutional partnership among East Carolina University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical...

Jun 17, 2021
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU cardiologist earns national award for outstanding work in science and medicine

Dr. Blase Carabello has been awarded the 2020-2021 Harriet P. Dustan Award for Outstanding Work in Science as Related to Medicine from the American College of Physicians (ACP). Carabello is...

Jun 15, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

EARLY DETECTION

East Carolina University’s successful wastewater testing program for COVID-19 has paused for the summer but will start again when students return to campus in August. “The wastewater program was an...