Tag: 2018-Year-in-Review
G. Greg Wang received a Career Development Program grant from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
The LLS grant will enable Wang lab to carry out unbiased oncogene target screening and shift towards new therapies of hematological malignancies.
Eron, Kuhlman named Smithies Investigators
The UNC School of Medicine selected professors from the departments of medicine and biochemistry & biophysics for the annual award in honor of the late Oliver Smithies, UNC’s first Nobel Prize winner.
Jeanie VanWinkle Looks Back – Interview with 1967 Alumna
The Ph.D. has given me opportunities I would never have had, particularly providing a look into the collaborative efforts to determine scientific goals in fighting disease and the unanimous demand for integrity in the process.
Congratulations to Five Faculty for their Long Service to the State
The UNC Chapel Hill Human Resources acknowledged the total state service for the following members of the department of Biochemistry and Biophysics for the second half of 2018.
Griffith elected into National Academy of Sciences
Griffith is one of 84 new members being recognized for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. National Academy of Sciences membership is one of the highest scientific honors conferred in the United States.
We rank 4th nationally in NIH funding in 2017!
The Department ranks fourth among all Biochemistry departments in the US, (both public and private institutions not just public) in 2017.
Carolina rises to fifth among U.S. universities for federal research funding
Carolina has again surpassed $1 billion in annual research and development expenditures, and the University’s ranking for federal research R&D expenditures rose from sixth to fifth in the nation.
1996 Alumni Update Gene Godbold PhD contributes to FunGCAT for the IARPA
Working as a contractor at Signature Science, he has developed ways to assess the threat of biological sequences so they can be grasped with machine learning
2011 Alumni Update Michael D. Johnson receives MIRA R35 grant
Dr. Johnson just received a MIRA R35 grant for 1.8 million dollars from NIGMS entitled “Elucidating the orchestrated bacterial response to copper toxicity.”
Graduate Student Pedro N. Pozo Publishes in Molecular Biology of the Cell and receives his PhD
Pedro N. Pozo, graduate student in Cook lab publishes his first-authored paper in MBoC and he receives his PhD.