Welcome to the new Director of the UNC Macromolecular Interactions Facility (Mac-In-Fac), Dr. Chris Travis. Chris has been Assistant Director since January and will start full-time as Director on Monday, June 30, 2025. Chris completed his PhD in the Department of Chemistry here at UNC under the direction of Prof. Marcey Waters, focusing on mechanistic studies of epigenetic reader proteins. Before joining UNC, Chris spent time at GSK at a medicinal chemistry co-op working on a program in the pre-clinical stage. As an undergraduate, Chris attended the College of William & Mary, where he worked under Prof. Doug Young to use unnatural amino acid technology to develop and optimize novel bioconjugation reactions.
Please contact him at phone (919) 962-4399 and Email. The Mac-In-Fac Core is located at 1124 Genome Science Building.
Chris will be replacing Dr. Ash Tripathy, who is retiring from the university. We are enormously grateful for everything Ash Tripathy has done for UNC research and BCBP over the last 25+ years, and we wish him a relaxing and well-deserved retirement.