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Congratulations to Erica Branham, who was awarded an F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS). Erica’s project is titled: “Stressful life events confer risk for chronic posttraumatic musculoskeletal pain through DNA methylation changes at the POMC promoter”

Dr McKibben and Erica Branham presented posters at the 2024 RNA Discovery Center conference at UNC.

Dr. Linnstaedt is named one of three Yang Family Biomedical Scholars for the 2023-2024 annual award. The Yang Scholars award recognizes faculty that have made significant scholarly contributions to their field.

Dr. McKibben presented research findings at the 2024 Society of Biological Psychiatry meeting in Austin, Texas.

Simran has been working in the lab for the past three years as an undergraduate researcher studying serum-based biomarkers for chronic pain development after trauma in our human cohort studies. She has decided to pursue her PhD at UGA where she will study neurodegeneration. Simran graduates from UNC with a...