6 years ago
Remote learning begins with successes, surprises
A look at how Carolina’s faculty and students are responding to remote teaching and learning in the first few days.
Author Archives: Carolyn Clabo
6 years ago
Carolina Student Impact Fund to Help Students Affected by COVID-19
UNC graduate students facing financial hardships because of the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak can apply for assistance through the Carolina Student Impact Fund.
6 years ago
Stay safe in 2020!
Stay safe in 2020! Live with LP is back on the air. This edition will cover events from November 2019 through February 2020. As you all know, COVID-19 has taken over our lives. However, so many wonderful things have happened in the department over the past few months. Since we anticipate significant changes in our operations for the foreseeable future, please follow university coronavirus updates closely and stay safe! Many thanks to Carolyn Clabo for helping me assemble this edition.
6 years ago
Congratulations to graduate student Jean Marie Mwiza who was awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship by the AHA
Graduate Research Assistant, Jean Marie Mwiza, Receives Prestigious Predoctoral Fellowship From American Heart Association (AHA) Congratulations to Jean Marie Mwiza, a graduate research assistant in Dr. Bergmeier’s Lab, for recently receiving a prestigious predoctoral fellowship from AHA! Mr. Mwiza is a pathology graduate student who is jointly supervised by Alisa Wolberg in Pathology and Wolfgang …
6 years ago
Yasemin Cole Receives Gates Cambridge Scholarship
School of Medicine student Yasemin Cole will be attending the University of Cambridge pursuing a doctoral degree in genomic sciences. She was one of 28 individuals chosen nationwide for the competitive and fully funded scholarship.
6 years ago
Campbell and Bergmeier labs collaborative research makes cover of JTH!
Campbell and Bergmeier labs collaborative research featured on the cover of the March 2020 issue of the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (JTH)!
6 years ago
Grad student Juan Carvajal-Garcia in Ramsden lab publishes paper on DNA Repair in Drosophila melanogaster, a species of fly
J. Carvajal-Garcia, E.R. Gales, D.A. Ramsden, and J. Sekelsky (2020). The Drosophila melanogaster ortholog of RFWD3 functions independently of RAD51 during DNA repair. G3 (Bethesda) 10: 999-1004. doi: 10.1534/g3.119.400903. Abstract Repair of damaged DNA is required for the viability of all organisms. Studies in Drosophila melanogaster, driven by the power of genetic screens, pioneered the discovery and characterization of many …
6 years ago
Robert Lee PhD promoted to Research Assistant Professor
On March 1, 2020, Robert Lee, Ph.D. was promoted to Research Assistant Professor. His research is centered around platelet signaling and function.
6 years ago
Parise named Dean of the University of Vermont’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Leslie Parise, PhD has been named Dean of the University of Vermont's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Leslie will begin her new position on May 15.
6 years ago
Congrats Qi Zhang and Saskia Neher on Teams Receiving Emerging Challenges Grants
The UNC School of Medicine awarded the 2019 Emerging Challenges in Biomedical Research Awards to five teams conducting basic science research in the fields of machine-learning, flaviviruses, vaping, and LPL trafficking The School of Medicine Office of Research provided five teams up to $50,000 in funding as part of the 2019 Emerging Challenges in Biomedical …
6 years ago
UNC School of Medicine NIH Funding Jumps More Than $23 Million in Federal FY 2019
All six basic science departments rank in the top 10 in National Institutes of Health funding, according to a new report by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, and 12 clinical departments rank in the top 30.
6 years ago
SOM Biomedical Research Core Voucher Program – FY20 Awarded Projects
Congratulations to our faculty on the funding from the SOM Biomedical Research Core Voucher Program.