photo of 3 people Postdoctoral student Sarah Scarry, graduate student Manwika in lab Give Now to Lab Operations at UNC

Carolina has again surpassed $1 billion in annual research and development expenditures.

The LLS grant will enable Wang lab to carry out unbiased oncogene target screening and shift towards new therapies of hematological malignancies.

photo of Joe Eron MD and Brian Kuhlman PhD

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.

Two alumni sitting at a table over dinner Jeanie VanWinkle PhD and Barry VanWinkle PhD This photo taken in 2017 on Barry's birthday

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.

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.

photo of Jack Griffith, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

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.

photo of group 2018 UNC School of Medicine Biochemistry and Biophysics Research Retreat

The Department ranks fourth among all Biochemistry departments in the US, (both public and private institutions not just public) in 2017.

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

photo of Michael D .L. Johnson PhD 2011 Alumnus cropped

Dr. Johnson just received a MIRA R35 grant for 1.8 million dollars from NIGMS entitled “Elucidating the orchestrated bacterial response to copper toxicity.”

photo of Pedro N. Pozo thesis defense 2018

Pedro N. Pozo, graduate student in Cook lab publishes his first-authored paper in MBoC and he receives his PhD.

Holiday card making December 3 at 12pm at the Beach cafe at UNC

The GPSF is holding a Holiday card drive on Monday December 3rd from 12-1pm at the Beach Café. Holiday cards made on Monday Dec. 3 will be distributed to Children at UNC Hospitals and to Unaccompanied Immigrant Children Come out to join the graduate students in making cards!

speaker photo of Dr. Mary Sure Coleman Thomas Willis Lambeth Lecture 2018

Dr. Mary Sue Coleman spoke at UNC on “The Educated Citizenry: An Endangered Species?”

Tag: 2018-Year-in-Review

Carolina rises to fifth among U.S. universities for federal research funding

G. Greg Wang received a Career Development Program grant from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Eron, Kuhlman named Smithies Investigators

Jeanie VanWinkle Looks Back – Interview with 1967 Alumna

Congratulations to Five Faculty for their Long Service to the State

Griffith elected into National Academy of Sciences

We rank 4th nationally in NIH funding in 2017!

1996 Alumni Update Gene Godbold PhD contributes to FunGCAT for the IARPA

2011 Alumni Update Michael D. Johnson receives MIRA R35 grant

Graduate Student Pedro N. Pozo Publishes in Molecular Biology of the Cell and receives his PhD

GPSF Card drive 12-1 Beach cafe

Dr. Mary Sue Coleman delivered The Thomas Willis Lambeth Lecture on Nov. 29