Department News

• Yi Zhang receives the Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award
  Congratulations to Dr. Yi Zhang, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, who has been awarded the first Hyman L. Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award for excellence in cancer research.
• Scott Lujan Awarded the First Annual "Diane Harris Leadership Award"
  Congratulations to Scott Lujan, recently graduated doctoral student in Biochemistry and Biophysics, who has been awarded the Diane Harris Leadership Award.
• Clumps of red and white blood cells may contribute to sickle cell disease
  Research in the Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, by Dr. Julia Brittain, Research Assitant Professor and Dr. Leslie Parise, Professor and Chair have shown that blood from sickle cell patients also contains clumps, or aggregates, of red and white blood cells that may contribute to the blockages.
• For the Paper Trail of Life on Mars or Other Planets, Find Cellulose 
  According to researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill, in the cover story for the April issue of the journal Astrobiology, finding cellulose microfibers may be the next best thing to a close encounter. 
• We are Moving in 2008
  The Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics will move to the new Genetic Medicine Building

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