3 days ago
The Liu lab consists of a group of young scientists with passion for biomedical research. The goal of Liu lab is to better understand deregulated signaling events in cancer to search for new drug targets and develop new treatment modalities. One focus of the Liu lab is on the ubiquitin/kinase signaling to define cancer type …
1 week ago
**Registration and Abstract Submission:** All graduate students (except rotating) and postdocs are expected to present abstracts. Other department members (undergraduates, technicians, etc.) are welcome to submit abstracts. Abstracts will be considered for short talks. Deadline for registration and abstracts is this Friday, Sept 13!
2 weeks ago
Counseling and Psychological Services team offers 24 options to help Tar Heels talk through specific issues.
4 weeks ago
Sarah Linnstaedt, PhD, Benjamin Vincent, MD, and Pengda Liu, PhD, were selected as Yang Family Biomedical Scholars in the eighth installment of this annual School of Medicine award. Please join us in celebrating the new class of Yang Scholars at a seminar and reception on August 27 at 9:30 AM in 1131 Bioinformatics Building. Coffee and refreshments will also be available at 9:00 AM.
4 weeks ago
Congratulations to our faculty. Their proposals were chosen for Tier 2 Stimulus Awards, which provide up to two years and $200,000 each in total support. The development award program is funded by the University Cancer Research Fund, the National Cancer Institute cancer center support grant and other sources. The recipients were drawn from a pool of 47 applicants.
1 month ago
Grant news: We have a T32 Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Training Grant. The PI listed on the grant is Dr. Brian Kuhlman. Special thanks to Holly Shepherd for all her work on the grant application.
1 month ago
Taghreed Mohammed Al-Turki, PhD, a postdoc in the lab of Jack Griffith, PhD, describes her long, difficult, and rewarding journey of becoming a telomere scientist as a first-time mother. View video and read more about her research.
1 month ago
Shu Zhang under the direction of Dr. Henrik Dohlman successfully defended her dissertation on August 15, 2024 and received her PhD!
1 month ago
The work of Carolina’s Dr. Aziz Sancar led Ahmet Dericioglu from Istanbul to Chapel Hill, determined to make a difference.
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For the fifth consecutive year, UNC’s research funding has eclipsed $1 billion. Carolina received $1.21 billion, money that’s expected to support research projects conducted statewide for federal agencies, industry partners and nonprofit organizations.
2 months ago
Congrats to Creativity Hubs Winners! "The Human MHC project "Revolutionizing Cancer Therapy by Total Sequencing of the MHC Peptidome" Co-PIs: Leon G. Coleman, Benjamin Vincent, Dan Dominguez, Brian Kuhlman, Albert Bowers, Krzysztof Krajewski and 4 other teams on their funding to execute their project over the next two years, for a combined total of $1.87 million.
2 months ago
Researchers in the lab of Jean Cook, PhD, chair and professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, have identified the cellular processes that occur when you take a cancer drug meant to stop rapid cell growth in tumors. Brandon Mouery is the first author on this research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
