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Carie Facemire's Hypertension article in the press
Why Certain Cancer Treatments Cause High Blood Pressure
Mark Zylka receives Transformative R01 Grant
Assistant professor Mark Zylka was awarded one of 42 NIH Roadmap Transformative R01 grants for his project Harnessing Ectonucleotidases to Treat Chronic Pain.
Roberts first-author paper in Neuron featured in Faculty of 1000
Philpot lab postdoctoral fellow Adam Roberts' first author publication featured in faculty of 1000
Tzima lab student Daniel Sweet awarded American Heart Association fellowship
July 2009 - AHA predoctoral fellowship will provide two years of support for Dan's project in the Tzima lab.
Zylka lab finds that Mrgprd enhances excitability in nociceptive (pain-sensing) neurons
The Journal of Neuroscience publishes findings by the Zylka lab, in collaboration with labs at Caltech and the University of Pittsburgh, that the G protein-coupled receptor called Mrgprd enhances excitability in nociceptive (pain-sensing) neurons.
Kadmiel awarded American Heart Association fellowship
June 2009 - Caron lab graduate student, Mahita Kadmiel, has been awarded two years of support from the American Heart Association.
Two department students receive Integrative Vascular Biology Training Program training grants
June 2009 - Maggie McCormick and Samantha Strickland are accepted into UNC's Integrative Vascular Biology Training Program.
Philpot lab reverses plasticity defects in a mouse model of the mental retardation Angelman syndrome
Otey lab uncovering connections between breast cancer metastasis and palladin
November 2008 - Goicoechea et al publish paper in Oncogene.
New faculty member - Andrea Azcarate-Peril, PhD
October 2008 - Please welcome Andrea Azcárate-Peril, PhD
Video: Zylka and colleagues discover new treatment for pain
Video: Mark Zylka, PhD, and members of his lab, together with colleagues at the University of Helsinki, have discovered a new therapeutic target for pain control, one that appears to be eight times more effective at suppressing pain than morphine.
Caron awarded Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship
October 2008 - Kathleen Caron, PhD, is one of three awardees to receive a Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship.
