Current Research


UNC Department of Pharmacology ranked #1 for NIH extramural funding! more info


New Mediacl Genetics Building

New Building
The new Genetic Medicine Building will be a state of the art interdisciplinary research facility and new home of the Department of Pharmacology once it is completed in 2008.
more info - arial photos!
photos of precast beams!

   

   Dr. Joe DeSimone wins presitious $500,000    Lemelson-MIT Prize! Our congratulations go out to Dr.    Desimone! read more

   

   Welcome new Carolina Summer Fellows! Four new    fellows arrived May 27 to do summer research. read more

 

   Five graduate students receive doctorates in May!    Congratulations, Graduates! read more

 

   Dr. Zefeng Wang wins Beckman Young Investigators    award! Congratualtions, Dr. Wang! read more   

 

 


 

April 29, 2008
Robert Margolskee, MD, Ph.D.,
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
“Tasteful receptors and gut feelings: gut-expressed gustducin and sweet taste receptor regulate enteroendocrine functions”
Host:David Siderovski

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May 6 , 2008
Luminary Distinguished Speaker
1131 Bioinformatics
Jack Dixon, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Med Institute, Vice President & Chief Science Officer
Host: Graduate Students
Cancelled

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May 13, 2008
12:00-1:00 pm
Pagano Conf Room,
Lineberger
Keith Bonin, Ph.D.
Wake Forest University
“Combined Atomic Force/Fluorescence Microscopy to Select Aptamers in a Single Cycle from a Pool of Random Oligonucleotides”
Host: Rudy Juliano and C-CCNE

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May 13, 2008
Irene Zohn, Ph.D.
George Washington University
Host: Channing Der
Cancelled - Rescheduled to Fall

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