4 years ago
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research has awarded a five-year, $3.78 million grant to a team of UNC researchers to study to whether experimental tumor and blood tests can accurately detect HPV-linked head and neck cancer, predict if the cancer will respond to treatment, and identify which cancer will recur.
4 years ago
Cathy Anderson, a BCBP graduate student and a member of Rob McGinty's lab, has been awarded an NCI Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award.
4 years ago
The Roadmap was announced on May 21 along with the decision to begin fall classes earlier than normal on August 10. Every day since that decision was announced, the Carolina community has worked together to put a plan in place to implement the goals of the Roadmap, help keep one another safe and implement steps to help reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19.
4 years ago
Do you feel bored of your daily routine? Want to change things and don’t know how? Take a break and give a look into these incredible training opportunities that Carolyn Clabo put together specially for us!! Thanks and Have a great evening!! Dr. Silvia Ramos AAMC Webinar: Understanding Intersectionality: bringing visibility to the experiences and …
4 years ago
UNC Biochemistry and Biophysics has been preparing for the Fall 2020 semester. The department recognizes and places priority on the importance of providing a safe and sanitary environment for our students, faculty, and staff who will return to campus. The decisions we have made stem from careful consideration of the current situation of the virus, social distancing measures, and University protocols and guidelines.
4 years ago
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, The UNC School of Medicine research funding increased by more than $24 million during fiscal year 2020.
4 years ago
Keean Braceros, a graduate student in Mauro Calabrese’s lab was awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) on July 17, 2020.
4 years ago
Dr. Oztas will join the faculty in Koc University in September 2020. In his own lab, he will pursue two main research programs: the maintenance of genome stability in plants under DNA-damaging environmental stress and the symbiotic interaction between plants and microbes. During his tenure as a postdoc in Dr. Aziz Sancar’s lab in the …
4 years ago
Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz, PhD, celebrates the hard work of Carolina’s researchers who have received record-high research funding and shares updates from last week’s Board of Trustees meeting.
4 years ago
The Department ranks fifth among all Biochemistry departments in the US, (both public and private institutions not just public) in 2019. We received over $18.6 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2019.
4 years ago
Effective August 1, work windows (shifts) will no longer be required in School of Medicine research labs but 50% occupancy and social distancing must still be observed.
4 years ago
Jack Griffith, PhD, is co-author of a PNAS paper that shows the role the XPG protein plays in DNA repair in healthy human cells, as well as how different mutations can translate into different diseases and cancer.
