Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, Nobel Laureate (Photo by Max Englund, UNC School of Medicine)

Seven hundred girls from seven cities in Turkey will engage in science, technology, engineering, and math education during a series of three-day conferences.

Onur successfully defended his dissertation and received his PhD on March 4, 2016.

Michael Whitfield, PhD, a graduate alum who trained in the lab of Dr. William Marzluff has received a $1 million transformational award to study the autoimmune disease systemic scleroderma.

Congratulations to Mahmoud, a graduate student in the lab of Nikolay Dokholyan! His paper was selected as the paper of the week in the February 19, 2016 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD (photo courtesy of Max Englund/UNC)

Congratulations to Dr. Aziz Sancar, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, who received the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Triangle Business Journal and is named as one of their Healthcare Heroes for the year.

On January 15, during Teacher Appreciation night, Aziz Sancar of UNC and Paul Modrich of Duke were honored as "Heroes of the Game" for their shared 2015 Nobel prize in chemistry.

For the first time, scientists pin down the structure of toxic clumps of a protein associated with a large number of ALS cases, opening new avenues in the pursuit of drugs to stem the disease.

2015 Tar Heels of the Year are Aziz Sancar of the University of North Carolina and Paul Modrich of Duke University.

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Harriet Fulbright Institute announces the Prof. Aziz Sancar Girls in STEM Project

Grad student Onur Dagliyan receives his PhD

Alumni Mike Whitfield receives $1 million grant for his research

Grad student Mahmoud Shobair has a paper of the week in JBC

Sancar receives top honor from Triangle Business Journal

Sancar and Modrich honored as “Heroes of the Game”

Study opens new door for ALS drug discovery

Aziz Sancar honored as Tar Heel of the Year