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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 …

Julia DiFiore, under the direction of Dr. Brian Strahl, successfully defended her dissertation on March 13, 2020 and received her PhD! The title of her dissertation is “Examining the Biological Functions of the H3K36 Methylation States in Transcription Regulation and the Post-Translational Modification Landscape of Set2.” While at UNC, Julia was also active in outreach …

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.

JTH cover photo March 2020 Bergmeier and Campbell lab JTH

Campbell and Bergmeier labs collaborative research featured on the cover of the March 2020 issue of the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (JTH)!

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 …

Hanna Trzeciakiewicz under the direction of Dr. Todd Cohen, successfully defended her dissertation on March 6, 2020 and received her PhD! The title of his dissertation is “The Regulation of Tau Pathogenesis in Neurodegeneration” Hanna is a NSF GRFP Fellow. She also received the 2020 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in Biological & Life Sciences in addition …

On March 1, 2020, Robert Lee, Ph.D. was promoted to Research Assistant Professor. His research is centered around platelet signaling and function.

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.

Nathan (Nate) Thomas, PhD, has been named Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the UNC School of Medicine. Thomas will join the School of Medicine leadership effective March 16, 2020.

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 …

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.

Researchers led by UNC BCBP’s Gaorav Gupta, MD, PhD, described the role of a mutation in the Mre11 gene in triple negative breast cancer and how a disruption of Mre11 function plays a significant role in the genomic instability of that cancer type. February 17, 2020 A hallmark of triple negative breast cancer, an aggressive …

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Congratulations to graduate student Jean Marie Mwiza who was awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship by the AHA

Graduate Student Julia DiFiore receives her PhD!

Yasemin Cole Receives Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Campbell and Bergmeier labs collaborative research makes cover of JTH!

Grad student Juan Carvajal-Garcia in Ramsden lab publishes paper on DNA Repair in Drosophila melanogaster, a species of fly

Graduate student Hanna Trzeciakiewicz receives her PhD!

Robert Lee PhD promoted to Research Assistant Professor

Parise named Dean of the University of Vermont’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

E. Nate Thomas III, PhD Named SOM Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Congrats Qi Zhang and Saskia Neher on Teams Receiving Emerging Challenges Grants

UNC School of Medicine NIH Funding Jumps More Than $23 Million in Federal FY 2019

Researchers implicate gene in DNA errors in aggressive breast cancer