Faculty News
Dr. Tom Kash Receives Highest National Award for Early Career Scientists
Dr. Tom Kash receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in recognition of his research contributions on the effects of alcohol on neural circuits in the brain.
Dr. Terry Kenakin Honored with Ariens Award
Terry Kenakin receives Dutch Pharmacological Society award and will give plenary lecture
Dr. Gary Johnson Named Kenan Professor
Dr. Johnson, Chair of the Department of Pharmacology, receives Distinguished Kenan Professorship to honor his excellence in research and teaching at UNC.
Johnson Lab has paper published in Cell Stem Cell
Amy Abel, Research Assistant Professor, and Nicole Vincent-Jordan, graduate student, are first authors on paper published in Cell Stem Cell May 6, 2011.
Dr. Barry Goz Honored As Best 2nd Year Instructor by School of Dentistry
Receives award for second year in a row
Harden and Sondek Labs Publish Paper in Science
The Harden and Sondek labs publish a paper in Science that describes the mechanism of activation and inactivation of the Gq/phospholipase-β signaling complex.
Dr. Tom Kash Receives Department of Defense Award
Department of Defense grants award to study Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome.
Dr. Pilar Blancafort Receives Department of Defense Award
Department of Defense grants Breast Cancer IDEA Award to study breast cancer stem cells.
Hahn Lab publishes paper in Nature Biotechnology
Sunday, June 27, 2010 — In a paper published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, UNC's Klaus M. Hahn, PhD, describes a new technique called engineered allosteric regulation, which provides a new tool for scientists who study the interactions of proteins within living cells.
Yanping Zhang Receives Third Annual Battle Award
Yanping Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation-Oncology and Joint Associate Professor in Pharmacology receives the Third Annual Battle Award.
McCarthy Lab Paper Published in Science & Highlighted in Nature
Paper reexamining glial function published in Science and highlighted in Nature