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Trauma can make it hard to go about your normal life. It can shake your sense of safety — on campus and beyond. UNC Healthy Heels offers mental health strategies to cope with a traumatic events.

photo of Dale Ramsden, Ph.D., UNC Prof. and Dir. of Graduate Studies for Biochemistry & Biophysics

Congratulations to Dr. Dale Ramsden, on his recent year 20 renewal of a grant from NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) for his project entitled “DNA Polymerases in Nonhomologous End Joining” for $405,547 that began on July 1st.

On August 15, 2023, a group of Indian trainees at UNC celebrated India’s 77th Independence Day. The day marks the date on which India got its independence, in 1947. It is celebrated every year in the remembrance of the freedom fighters who sacrificed their lives to free India from the ruling Britishers, back then. The …

Meet Dr. Zhijun Li. He received his Ph.D. in a joint program of science and engineering, from Saitama University and Cellular and Molecular Biology Unit of RIKEN in Japan...

Dr. Kathryn Gunn was recently awarded the American Society for Cell Biology’s (ASCB) Porter prize for research excellence. This prestigious $5,000 prize is awarded to one postdoctoral fellow and one graduate student at the yearly ASCB meeting. Awardees are selected based on the novelty and creativity of their findings, and how these findings contribute to …

I am from Moscow, Russia, and have just arrived in the US and I am absolutely delighted to be a part of the UNC. I have been here merely a week, yet I have already been deeply impressed by the creative energy and scientific excitement that looms in this place.

Dorsaf works as a Patient Journey Partner in Paris, France...

Meet Hajar Zaheer “I graduated with a B.S. in Systems Biology from Virginia Tech just this spring! I'm joining the Kuhlman Lab as a postbac research assistant for one year under an NSF-funded Rosetta Commons program and will be working with Nick Randolph on protein sequence design and structure prediction...

over looking summer intern poster session many are undergrads long hall way with many posters

Thank you to all of our summer interns for your contributions. We look forward to hearing more from you in the future. Please connect with us on Linked in and other social media platforms.

From left to right: Tanvi Rudran at the 2023 Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Robert Lee PhD, assistant professor.

This study, “Protease-activated receptors and glycoprotein VI cooperatively drive the platelet component in thromboelastography”, now in print in JTH with open access, was a collaborative effort between Robert Lee, Wolfgang Bergmeier and other members of the UNC Blood Research Center, and was driven by an outstanding undergraduate student Tanvi Rudran...

DEI award Feb. 2023 crowd with plaques at UNC SOM event

In February 2023, the UNC Biochemistry and Biophysics received an Award from the UNC SOM Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to recognize our DEI efforts and activities in promoting a strong diverse and inclusive environment!

As the BCBP Postdoc Committee enters its second year, we’re celebrating a transfer in committee leadership.

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Dr. Dale Ramsden received a grant for $405,547 from NIH National Cancer Institute

Indian students at UNC celebrated India’s 77th Independence Day on GMB Lawn

Zhijun Li PhD joins Qi Zhang’s Lab as a Research Assistant Professor

Dr. Kathryn Gunn was awarded the Porter prize for research excellence

Welcome Postdoc Alexey Martyanov PhD to BCBP and Bergmeier lab

Career Update: former postdoc Dorsaf Ghalloussi PhD (Bergmeier lab) works in Paris

Welcome research staff member – Hajar Zaheer

Thank you to all our summer interns on 2023 national intern day!

Lee and Bergmeier publish in Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

School of Medicine awards BCBP for DEI work!

BCBP Postdoc committee announces new leadership