5 years ago
From cleaning beakers to doing cutting-edge research
Sophomore Amiee Littlejohn got more than she bargained for when she took a job cleaning beakers in a lab at Carolina. Now she’s pursuing a career in cancer research.
5 years ago
Sophomore Amiee Littlejohn got more than she bargained for when she took a job cleaning beakers in a lab at Carolina. Now she’s pursuing a career in cancer research.
5 years ago
University Research Week is an annual celebration of Carolina’s research excellence.
5 years ago
Megan DeMarco, our grants pre-award specialist since March 2017, started as a student in a Masters of Public Health program at UNC (Class of 2021) just a few weeks ago, while continuing to working full time. Her concentration is Leadership in Practice. After graduation, she plans to use her degree and grant management experience in …
5 years ago
In the time it takes for an Amazon Prime delivery to arrive, cells damaged by chemotherapy can...
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Frank successfully defended his dissertation and received his PhD on November 1,2019. Frank Teets, under the direction of Dr. Hahn and Dr. Kuhlman, successfully defended his dissertation and received his PhD on November 1, 2019! The title of his dissertation was “Function-Driven Approaches to the Design of Optogenetic Tools”. We wish Frank the best in …
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Biochemistry and Biophysics gathered for the Fall Family Picnic on October 30th.
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The UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) and the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) have awarded 3 pilot grants.
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University Research Week is taking place from November 4-8, 2019, and there are many campus-wide events showcasing the research done at UNC.
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When the University acquired a cryo-EM, Gunn needed to analyze the images with software, like Relion and EMAN2, which only run in Linux environments.
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he PPMH matched funds from the NC TraCS $5-$50K Pilot Program for four principal investigators in the UNC School of Medicine who proposed projects that would generate evidence for implementation of precision medicine approaches in the UNC Health Care System and beyond. The UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH), which aims to transform …
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On Tuesday October 15th, 2019 Dr. Heidi Hamm, a professor of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University will be speaking about the regulation of exocytosis by inhibitory GPCR’s and G protein beta gamma subunits. Exocytosis of presynaptic vesicles is a critical process in hormone and neurotransmitter release. Improper regulation of vesicular fusion is associated with well-known disorders such as epilepsy, intellectual disability, autism, and dyskinetic movement disorders.
5 years ago
An international, collaborative study involving the University of Cape Town (UCT) and UNC researchers has revealed an unexpected finding that could lead ...