Alumni News Archives | Biochemistry and Biophysics

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Silent Sam, Charleston, Charlottesville and George Floyd made the headlines. On a less visible but equally impassioned front, faculty of color at Chapel Hill believe this is the moment for action toward equity. Carolina Alumni Review featured “The Fierce Urgency...

Graduate student Alex Stutzman in Dowen & McKay lab was interviewed for the “Lighting a Spark” feature story in the Jan/Feb issue of Diversity in Action on Page 41 She emphasizes how important it is for geneticists to be careful and intentional with their language and interpretations around studies of ethnicity and …

All seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 11 am.

2 news highlights have been published from every department within the School of Medicine in the 2020 School of Medicine Research Roundup.

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“Tar Heal Tuesday” is December 1st, but you can visit our Giving page today. #GivingTuesday Your support will help us spread our grant dollars further and continue to maintain and improve our outstanding educational and research programs, and we invite you to partner with us! #fundraising Click this link to view our GIVING OPPORTUNITIES website: Our Biochemistry and Biophysics fund …

November 2020 JTH Bergmeier lab cover low res

In collaboration with a French institute, Bergmeier lab’s research is featured on several covers of the November 2020 issues of the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (JTH). This research first appeared in the July 2020 issue.

Zhang lab used nuclear magnetic resonance imagine to discover an RNA-centric mechanism for regulating the creation of a microRNA in response to environmental stimuli.

Summer research programmes are renowned for encouraging underrepresented minorities (URMs) to pursue STEM careers, but COVID-19 left many students in the United States unable to participate. We created the National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP) to matchmake students with mentors, enabling 250 URM students to do summer research.

Cassandra Hayne (2017) shares two publications one on SARS-COV-2 and one breakthrough article in Nucleic Acids Research journal.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, The UNC School of Medicine research funding increased by more than $24 million during fiscal year 2020.

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The Fierce Urgency of Now

STEM activists and how hashtag activism amplifies black voices

Announcing our BCBP Spring 2021 Seminar Series

2020 School of Medicine Research Roundup

#GivingTuesday is on December 1st

Bergmeier lab research featured on the cover of the November 2020 issue of the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (JTH)!

Researchers discover proton regulator of essential cancer microRNA

Alum Michael Johnson: Crowdsourcing virtual summer research opportunities to support minorities in microbiology

Cassandra K. Hayne’s 2 recent publications: SARS-COV-2 and NAR paper

UNC School of Medicine Research Funding Increases $24 million in FY20