1 year ago
Latest Grant Awards to SOM Faculty Feb. 2025
Wolfgang Bergmeier, Ronald Swanstrom, Brain Strahl, and other SOM faculty with project start dates in January of 2025 (the awards listed have a total award amount greater than $100,000).
Author Archives: Carolyn Clabo
1 year ago
Biochemistry and Biophysics department hosts poster session
Our poster session featured over 20 of our trainees and was held on the afternoon of Feburary 26, 2025 in the Genetics Medicine Lobby.
1 year ago
Innovate Carolina Announces Brian Kuhlman as a 2025 NAI Senior Member!
Achievement recognizes outstanding faculty for their contributions to research, innovation, and real-world impact. Innovate Carolina announced three University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) faculty members named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). This prestigious distinction recognizes faculty, scientists, and administrators who have demonstrated success in patents, licensing, and commercialization—developing technologies …
1 year ago
Ike Emerson was featured on a podcast
Ike Emerson and Dr. Frank Conlon were featured on a podcast about his research published in Circulation Research. Episode 69 of Discover CircRes. The Episode includes a discussion about their recent study, X Chromosome-Linked MicroRNAs Regulate Sex Differences in Cardiac Physiology.
1 year ago
Welcome 2025 Spring BBSP rotation students
Please warmly welcome our new and returning BBSP rotation students to our labs. Rachel Lee in G Gupta lab; Runjie Yuan in Liu lab; Elise Liebow in Campbell lab, Sydney McCoy in Cook lab; Allie Eidman in McGinty lab; Zubair Bhuiyan, Harris Davis, Kendall Cherry, and McGuire Metts in Kuhlman lab; Anna McKenna and Annalee …
1 year ago
Krajewski and Leiderman were promoted to Full Professors
Congratulations to Krzysztof Krajewski and Karin Leiderman who were both promoted to Full Professor recently!
1 year ago
Researchers have discovered that RNA in Zika virus can freeze itself in time
Some Viruses ‘Freeze’ Their RNA to Replicate, UNC Study Says. Zhang lab and UNC Researchers have discovered that RNA in Zika virus can freeze itself in time to further its spread in the body, revolutionizing how researchers study disease-causing viruses.
1 year ago
Staff News: Congrats to Steven Torchio who earned his PHR certificate!
Congrats to Steven Torchio our Human Resources Consultant, who earned his PHR certificate!
1 year ago
MicroRNA Responsible for Sex Differences in Cardiac Physiology, Disease
Researchers in the laboratories of Frank L. Conlon, PhD, professor of biology and genetics, and Bill Marzluff, PhD, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, have recently made a large stride in the field, uncovering one of the molecular reasons behind sex disparities in heart disease. Raad about the connections to the recent Nobel Prize.
1 year ago
Welcome Dr. Chris Travis our new Assistant Director of the Mac-In-Fac Core facility
Dr. Chris Travis has joined our department as the new Assistant Director of the Mac-In-Fac Core facility, where he assists with instrument scheduling, new user training, and teaching the BIOC 662 course.
1 year ago
Congrats to Alejandro Lopez who earned his PhD!
Alejandro Lopezi under the direction of Dr. Leslie Morrow successfully defended his dissertation on January 31, 2025 and received his PhD! Program: Biochemistry and Biophysics The title of his dissertation was “Novel Inhibitory Sites of [3α,5α]3-hydroxypregnan-20-one on Toll-like Receptor 4 Neuroimmune Signaling”
1 year ago
Researchers pinpoint small molecules that greatly affect differences in heart health in men and women
In a new study led by graduate student Ike Emerson in the laboratories of Frank L. Conlon, PhD, professor of biology and genetics, and Bill Marzluff, PhD have recently made a large stride in the field, uncovering one of the molecular reasons behind sex disparities in heart disease.