The cultural and medical practice of Indigenous medicine has birthed a vast pharmacopeia replete with treatments for pain, cancer, and more.

ASM has honored Dr. Johnson with its William A. Hinton Award for Advancement of a Diverse Community of Microbiologists for his creation of NSURP. Congrats to our 2011 program alum!

Cathy Anderson Spangler and Gabby Budziszewski

Each month BCBP students have opportunities to present their research in front of their peers.

Congratulations Anna, a graduate student in Neher lab, for her research presentation award!

Thursday a catered lunch box will be provided from Armadillo Grill for all postdocs and research scholars who preregistered with Holly. Thank you for all that you do in the Biochemistry and Biophysics department!

We are very excited to announce that Nikea Pittman Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in Saskia Neher lab, received a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program award!

Bergmeier and McGinty played tennis 2021

Two BCBP faculty members played doubles in the Southern Village Club Championship.

The Nobel Prize highlighted this post on social media on September 08, 2021. Happy 75th birthday to Aziz Sancar! Click to read the full post.

Gaorav P. Gupta, MD, PhD, assistant professor of radiation oncology, biochemistry & biophysics at UNC and Dr. McConkey of Johns Hopkins were named co-chairs of Hoosier Cancer Research Network’s Correlative Sciences Clinical Trial Working Group.

Dr. Ora Schueler-Furman and Dr. Lydia M. Contreras

Student seminar selection committee comprised of 9 students Thanh Phan Phan, Edgar Faison, Derek Bolhuis, Mikayla Feldbauer, Abigail Ballard, Aki Braceros, Jeff Bonin, Dalia Fleifel and Rodney Park serve under Dr. Saskia Neher.

On August 31, Dalia Fleifel was elected by her peers in the Fall General Elections as a GPSG Senator, part of the Student Government at UNC-Chapel Hill.

McGinty lab protein structure green and orange

This structure was solved by McGinty lab in collaboration with Lindsay Ingerman-James group and published in ACS Chemical Biology.

Tag: News 2021

SWAC kicks off Fall 2021 with an article from BCBP student Gabby Budziszewski

Society Honors Dr. Michael Johnson for Diversity Promotion

Student Seminar series resumed with presentations by Cathy (Anderson) Spangler and Gabby Budziszewski

Anna Wheless wins a poster award at the Fredrickson Lipid Research Conference!

2021 National Postdoc Appreciation Week is September 20-24

Dr. Nikea Pittman named BWF Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program recipient!

Faculty collaboration outside the lab: Bergmeier and McGinty played in Southern Village Club Championship

Happy 75th birthday to Aziz Sancar!

Gupta named HCRN Correlative Sciences co-chair along with McConkey

New BCBP Trainee-Led Initiative to Host Invited Speakers to Campus

Congratulations to Dalia Fleifel our new BCBP Senator in the GPSG!

McGinty lab contributes structure of peptidomimetic ligand bound to MPP8 chromodomain