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Faculty News, Events & Awards
- Dr. Joe DeSimone wins $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize.
Dr. Joe DeSimone, a joint faculty member in Chemistry, was named the 2008 recipient of the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Prize for innovations in polymer chemistry. Known as the "Oscar for Inventors" the Lemelson-MIT prize awards $500,000 to mid-career inventors to recognize individuals who create innovations that "improve life for all of us."
Dr. DeSimone recieved the award for "his pioneering inventions, lab-to-marketplace entrepreneurship and commitment to mentorship." His inventions include ground-breaking innovations in green manufacturing, promising applications in gene therapy and drug delivery, as well as medical devices.
“DeSimone has established a stellar record of achievement and innovation,” said Dr. Robert S. Langer, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who nominated DeSimone for the Lemelson-MIT Prize. “Joe is clearly one of the most inventive researchers in all of science.”
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- Dr. Zefeng Wang has been awarded a Beckman Young Investigators Award.
"The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation makes grants to non-profit research  institutions to promote research in chemistry and the life sciences, broadly interpreted, and particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science. The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program is intended to provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences." All 2008 award recipients can be viewed here.
- Dr. Zefeng Wang has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Molecular Biology. The Sloan Research Fellowships provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars. The awards are not bound to any project and may be freely used to pursue whatever line of research is of interest to the investigator.
- Dr. Bryan Roth has been appointed Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor of Protein Therapeutics and Proteomics by James Moeser, Chancellor, in recognition of his research at UNC . The appointment is effective Aug. 24, 2007.
- Dr. Zefeng Wang wins RNA Society/Scaringe Young Scientist Award.
Zefeng Wang received the award in recognition of his outstanding research contributions to the field of RNA biology, including his work on RNA splicing.
- Dr. Ken Harden receives Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring.
Ken Harden received
the Graduate School's Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring at the May 12 doctoral Hooding Ceremony in Memorial
Hall.
- Dr. Rudy Juliano named Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor
Rudy Juliano
was awarded his Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professorship Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at a ceremony honoring Dr. Juliano and other recipients of Distinguished Professorships.
- Dr. David Siderovski receives Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize
David Siderovski received the award, which
recognizes the achievements of outstanding junior tenure-track faculty or recently tenured faculty,
for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty. Dr. Siderovski's research was described as "groundbreaking, creative and truly outstanding "The focus of his research is on the regulators of G-protein signaling, or "RGS proteins", which he discovered— that modify the duration and strength of hormone communication between cells. He will give a lecture on his work at the Carolina Club on April 24, 2007.
- Dr. Channing Der Named Kenan Professor
Dr. Channing Der and the Department of Pharmacology have been awarded a Distinguished Kenan Professorship.
- Fulton Crews Receives Bowles Award 2006
Fulton Crews, Director of the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, was presented the Bowles Lectureship Award for his outstanding research into the effects of alcohol on neuronal development and signaling. (Photo: Dr. Crews and Dean Roper.)
- Dr. A. Leslie Morrow Appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Center Line Newsletter Center Line is published quarterly by the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies "to bring greater understanding of alcholism and alcholic disease reserach."
- C-CCNE – Rudy Juliano
Rudy Juliano, Professor of Pharmacology, is the Principal Investigator of a new grant from the National Cancer Institute Institute establishing the Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence as part of the NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer.
- V Foundation Award - Pilar Blancafort
The 2005 Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic (JVCGC) Volunteer Grant was awarded to Pilar Blancafort in support of her research on breast cancer in honor of volunteer Julie Stewart. read more
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