Amanda Chang, Author at Biochemistry and Biophysics

The annual faculty elections will be held April 7-19, 2017. Electronic ballots will be sent by email to all members of the Voting Faculty.

Benfeard successfully defended his dissertation and received his PhD on March 24, 2017.

After 9 years of dedicated service to the Department, Amanda will transition into a new position in the Office of Sponsored Research on March 27, 2017.

Seth successfully defended his dissertation and received his PhD on March 17, 2017.

Congratulations to Wolfgang Bergmeier, associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics who was just named as a new associate editor for the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.

Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, Nobel Laureate (Photo by Max Englund, UNC School of Medicine)

Congratulations to Qi Zhang, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics who received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF)!

The Department continues to rank highly for NIH funding among all Biochemistry departments in the US. In 2016, the Department secured 14.96 million in federal funding and ranks 8th.

On Oct. 20, 2016, Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, 2015 Nobel Laureate, Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, delivered the annual Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture.

Melina Kibbe, MD, and Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD

Nobel Prize Winner Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD and Melina Kibbe, MD join only twelve current and former UNC School of Medicine faculty members in the prestigious National Academy of Medicine.

The American Cancer Society awards Greg Wang, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, a research scholar grant to study the role of PRC2 dysregulation in cancer.

An employee works in EpiCypher's lab in Durham. EpiCypher develops and sells recombinant nucleosomes — an industry first — and other products for epigenetics and chromatin research.

Renovion and EpiCypher, spinouts from the work of David Henke, MD, and Brian Strahl, PhD, respectively, were celebrated at the 2016 National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer’s University Startups Demo Day.

From a new study published in Structure, researchers in the lab of Nikolay Dokholyan have discovered a way to protect neurons from toxic effects by countering the tendency of the protein SOD1 to clump in motor neurons.

Author Archives: Amanda Chang

April 7-19 Faculty Elections

Grad student Benfeard Williams receives his PhD

Department bids farewell to Amanda

Grad student Seth Zimmerman receives his PhD

Bergmeier nominated to serve as an associate editor for JTH

Zhang receives a CAREER award from the NSF

We rank 8th nationally in NIH funding for 2016

Sancar delivers Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture

Sancar and Kibbe elected to National Academy of Medicine

Greg Wang receives a research scholar grant from ACS

Two UNC School of Medicine startup companies featured in Congressional event

New ALS discovery: scientists reverse protein clumping involved in neurodegenerative conditions