4 years ago
Sierra Cole passed her qualifying oral exam
Sierra Cole in Amy Gladfelter's lab successfully passed her qualifying oral exam! Congratulations Sierra!
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4 years ago
Uriel Jean-Baptiste and Darex Vera Rodriguez successfully passed their qualifying oral exams
Congratulations to our graduate students who successfully passed their qualifying oral exams!
4 years ago
Yanyan Yang promoted to Research Assistant Professor
Congratulations to Dr. Yanyan Yang on her promotion to Research Assistant Professor.
4 years ago
UNC-Chapel Hill receives $65M from NIH for antiviral drug development center
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health awarded the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health a $65 million grant establishing an Antiviral Drug Discovery Center to develop oral antivirals that can combat pandemic-level viruses like COVID-19. The center builds upon and is tightly affiliated with UNC’s Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative. The READDI-AViDD Center, one of nine established by the NIH, is an integrated public-private partnership with a renowned, interdisciplinary research team of experts from the Gillings School, UNC School of Medicine and UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. They will apply cutting-edge technologies to develop oral therapies that target viral families with high potential to cause a pandemic in the future.
4 years ago
New postdoc website coming soon
A new postdoc website, specially designed for our researchers in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics which is tailored specifically for our postdocs, research associates, research fellows, and visiting scholars is coming soon.
4 years ago
Pengda Liu PhD receives a grant from NIH National Cancer Institute
Project Title: Cancer Hijacks Enzyme Substrate Mutations to Facilitate Tumorigenesis
4 years ago
This week is UNC’s Researcher Appreciation Week, view video
Yesterday marked the start of UNC’s Researcher Appreciation Week. We are so thankful for each and every one of you! Please check out this video of UNC leadership recognizing your contributions and the incredible work you do every day.
4 years ago
Bike to Work Week 2022 is May 16-22
May is National Bike Month and Bike to Work Week is May 16-22, 2022. Today was an e-bike day for Brian Kuhlman. Brandy Curtis, a third-year graduate student always bikes to Amy Gladfelter's lab in the Genome Sciences Building. We encourage members of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics who ride their bikes to the lab to tag us on social media this month.
4 years ago
Maria Al Haddad is Shadow A Scientist’s highlighted researcher!
This week Shadow A Scientist featured Maria Al Haddad! Maria is a second-year Ph.D. student in Dr. Sharon Campbell's lab studying the interaction between the Ras and PI3K.
4 years ago
David Paul promoted to Research Assistant Professor
Congratulations to Dr. David S. Paul on his promotion to Research Assistant Professor on May 11, 2022.
4 years ago
UNC building dedication for Henry Owl and Hortense McClinton
Tomorrow, we celebrate the naming of two buildings in honor of groundbreaking heroes in Carolina’s history: Hortense McClinton, the first African American faculty member, and Henry Owl, the first American Indian and the first person of color to enroll at our University. I encourage the UNC community to watch the events via livestream starting at 11 AM on May 13, 2022.
4 years ago
FASEB and NIH Partner on DataWorks! Prize to Highlight Power of Data Sharing and Reuse
The National Institutes of Health is sponsoring up to 12 monetary prize awards with a total prize purse of up to $500,000 to reward innovative use of data sharing and reuse and the advancement research discoveries.