News Archives
April 2011
- Graduate student James Green awarded North Carolina Native American Incentive Grant
- Graduate student Tricia Lenhart selected as 2011 recipient of the Gertrude B. Elion Mentored Medical Student Award for her research into the connection between estrogen and cardiovascular disease
March 2011
- Portia McCoy (Philpot lab) awarded a postdoctoral training fellowship from the Autism Science Foundation, given to student/mentor teams conducting research into autism interventions, early diagnosis, biomarkers and animal models
- Department research by Azcarate, Lund and Otey appears in the winter issue of the UNC publication endeavors - Cheney lab graduate student, Alex Raines, has byline
- Philpot lab publication describes a new role for a class of receptors that underlie learning and memory in the brain, with possible implications for neurodevelopmental disorders
February 2011
- Alumnus Peter Mohler named director of the Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute at The Ohio State University
- Drs. Ben Philpot, Mark Zylka, and Bryan Roth were awarded a prestigious grant from the Simons Foundation to identify drug-like compounds for the treatment of autism spectrum disorders
- Graduate student Gracz publishes first-author review article
January 2011
- Latest research from the Bhat lab describes a key molecular mechanism in nerve fibers with implications for multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases
- New faculty member Andrew C. Dudley, PhD
- New funding: Arendshorst, Facemire, Azcarate-Peril and Thaxton
- Graduate student McCormick publishes first-author paper in ATVB