8 months ago
Amelia McCue receives the Dianne Harris Leadership Award
Amelia McCue is the recipient of the Diane Harris Leadership Award in the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department for exemplary leadership.
Tag: News 2023
8 months ago
2023 School of Medicine Research Roundup
For our department's research highlights, see page 2: Dale Ramsden and Gaorav Gupta labs; Bill Marzluff, Qi Zhang, Dan Dominguez, Silvia Ramos, Josh Boyer, Ron Swanstrom, and James Emerson. On page 7: Ron Swanstrom, Sarah Joseph.
9 months ago
2023 Holiday Party Highlights and Award presentations
The Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics gathered on December 12, 2023, to celebrate our accomplishments over this past year.
9 months ago
Drug Target Review: New understanding of the TMEJ pathway in cancer (Dale Ramsden’s lab research)
Cancer treatment may be majorly impacted by new findings about the polymerase theta-mediated end joining time DNA repair pathway.
9 months ago
3 Graduate Students served as science ambassadors with Shadow a Scientist
On November 29th, Abby Ballard, Gracie Clark, and Gisselle Prida Ajo served as Shadow A Scientist graduate student science ambassadors.
9 months ago
The UNC Center for AIDS Research turns 25 (Ron Swanstrom, director)
Ron Swanstrom (on right) and others spoke about UNC Center for AIDS Research's dedication to ending HIV.
9 months ago
Researcher in the Spotlight: Postdoc, Ashraf N. Abdo
Meet Ashraf, a researcher in Sancar lab who is engaged in research on chronotherapy using different tumor and circadian models.
9 months ago
Aziz Sancar elected an honorary member of ANAS
Aziz Sancar was elected an honorary member of Azerbaijan National Academy of Science.
9 months ago
Native American Heritage Month celebration and potluck
We celebrated Native American Heritage Month with a departmental potluck. The DEI Cultural Sub-Committee made a trivia on general knowledge about Native American tribes in the US and North Carolina. The top winners were Chrystal Starbird, Garrett Hubbard, and Amrita Nallathambi,
9 months ago
Adil Muneer earned his PhD under the direction of Dr. Xian Chen
Adil Muneer successfully defended his dissertation under the direction of Dr. Xian Chen on August 25th, 2023, and he has received his PhD. The title of his dissertation is “Non-canonical translation regulatory function of G9a in chronic inflammation associated diseases.”
9 months ago
Biochemistry and Biophysics welcomes 19 winter rotation graduate students
We welcomed 19 winter rotation students to our faculty-affiliated labs.
9 months ago
Congrats to Qi Zhang who was promoted to Full Professor
Congratulations to Biochemistry and Biophysics faculty Qi Zhang who was promoted from associate professor to full professor effective November 10, 2023. His research focuses on the molecular basis of RNA function.