5 days ago
Dr. Jack Griffith featured in UNC Research
Read this interview of our faculty Jack Griffith who has been contributing to research at Carolina for 46 years.
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1 week ago
Mental Health Resources for students, postdocs, faculty and staff
Learn about campus resources and how Tar Heels are using outreach and research to prioritize on campus and beyond.
3 weeks ago
Liu Lab spotlight: recent publications and new grant
The Liu lab consists of a group of young scientists with passion for biomedical research. The goal of Liu lab is to better understand deregulated signaling events in cancer to search for new drug targets and develop new treatment modalities. One focus of the Liu lab is on the ubiquitin/kinase signaling to define cancer type …
1 month ago
Postdocs and Students can connect through CAPS therapy groups
Counseling and Psychological Services team offers 24 options to help Tar Heels talk through specific issues.
2 months ago
UNC School of Medicine Names 2023-24 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars
Sarah Linnstaedt, PhD, Benjamin Vincent, MD, and Pengda Liu, PhD, were selected as Yang Family Biomedical Scholars in the eighth installment of this annual School of Medicine award. Please join us in celebrating the new class of Yang Scholars at a seminar and reception on August 27 at 9:30 AM in 1131 Bioinformatics Building. Coffee and refreshments will also be available at 9:00 AM.
2 months ago
Sharon Campbell and Jean Cook were awarded Tier 2 Lineberger developmental research grants
Congratulations to our faculty. Their proposals were chosen for Tier 2 Stimulus Awards, which provide up to two years and $200,000 each in total support. The development award program is funded by the University Cancer Research Fund, the National Cancer Institute cancer center support grant and other sources. The recipients were drawn from a pool of 47 applicants.
2 months ago
“You Can Be Both,” A Single Mom’s Journey to Becoming a Renowned Telomere Scientist (Griffith lab)
Taghreed Mohammed Al-Turki, PhD, a postdoc in the lab of Jack Griffith, PhD, describes her long, difficult, and rewarding journey of becoming a telomere scientist as a first-time mother. View video and read more about her research.
2 months ago
Congrats to Shu Zhang who earned her PhD!
Shu Zhang under the direction of Dr. Henrik Dohlman successfully defended her dissertation on August 15, 2024 and received her PhD!
2 months ago
Turkish student inspired by Nobel laureate’s research
The work of Carolina’s Dr. Aziz Sancar led Ahmet Dericioglu from Istanbul to Chapel Hill, determined to make a difference.
2 months ago
Annual Research Funding Surpasses $1B — Again
For the fifth consecutive year, UNC’s research funding has eclipsed $1 billion. Carolina received $1.21 billion, money that’s expected to support research projects conducted statewide for federal agencies, industry partners and nonprofit organizations.
2 months ago
Team Scientists selected for Carolina’s Creativity Hubs funding
Congrats to Creativity Hubs Winners! "The Human MHC project "Revolutionizing Cancer Therapy by Total Sequencing of the MHC Peptidome" Co-PIs: Leon G. Coleman, Benjamin Vincent, Dan Dominguez, Brian Kuhlman, Albert Bowers, Krzysztof Krajewski and 4 other teams on their funding to execute their project over the next two years, for a combined total of $1.87 million.
3 months ago
Brandon Mouery first author in Cook lab research featured in Vital Signs
Researchers in the lab of Jean Cook, PhD, chair and professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, have identified the cellular processes that occur when you take a cancer drug meant to stop rapid cell growth in tumors. Brandon Mouery is the first author on this research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.