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Zylka lab finds interaction between the neural circuits that sense hot and cold stimuli, pain
The research was selected by the journal Neuron as cover story for the April 10, 2013 print edition. Click for complete UNC Healthcare news story.
Magness lab researchers isolate adult stem cells from human intestinal tissue
Graduate student Adam Gracz is co-author of the study, published in the journal Stem Cells. Click for the complete UNC Health Care news story.
Researchers in the lab of Carol Otey probe how pancreatic cancers metastasize
Findings are to be published in the March 25 issue of Oncogene. Click for the complete UNC Health care article.
Itano was selected as a winner of the 2011 LCCC Graduate Fellowship Award.
Michelle Itano formerly of the Jacobson Lab now has a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rockefeller University.
Keith Burridge, a Kenan Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, is also a playwright.
Click for the article in UNC Health Care with story and interview with the playwright.
Dunleavey awarded an F31 NRSA from the National Cancer Institute
James Dunleavey, graduate student in the Dudley Lab, has been awarded an F31 NRSA from the National Cancer Institute.
Sulik awarded 2012 Bowles Lectureship
November 2012 – Kathleen Sulik, PhD, is the recipient of the 2012 Bowles Lectureship Award. This annual award is designed to "honor the best and the brightest in alcohol research." She presented her talk, “A Tale of Mice and Men, Embryos and Ethanol” on November 5.
O’Brien is 2013 Emil Steinberger Memorial Lecture Awardee
Deborah O’Brien, PhD, will give the keynote lecture entitled "Male Fertility: Systems Genetics and Drug Discovery" at the 38th annual meeting of the American Society of Andrology in San Antonio, April 13-16, 2013.
Two UNC Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies fellows receive ISBRA Presidents Awards
October 2012 - Dr. Robert Lipinski and Dr. Kristen Pleil received two of the five $1,000 International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ISBRA) Presidents Awards at the annual meeting in Sapporo, Japan in September.
Mark Zylka featured in Nature news article on drug discovery
Article includes a profile of Zylka's work with collaborator Stephen Frye in a discussion of drug discovery in academic research.
Graduate students Adam Gracz and Tricia Lenhart to receive 2013 Graduate Education Advancement Board Impact Awards
December 2012 - Congratulations to physiology graduate students Adam Gracz and Tricia Lenhart, 2013 recipients of UNC's Graduate Education Advancement Board (GEAB) Impact Award
Lin Xiao nominated for HHMI International Student Research Fellowship
November 2012 - Graduate student Lin Xiao is one of seven nominees from UNC for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Student Research Fellowship.
