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.

Sponsored by UNC-Chapel Hill Graduate School’s Graduate Education Advancement Board, the Impact Awards recognize graduate students whose research provides special benefits to the citizens of North Carolina. Congrats to Andrew!

In this video, learn more about Aziz Sancar, the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemisty for 2015.

Qi Zhang, PhD earns a 2015 Jefferson-Pilot Award for his groundbreaking techniques that allow him to create videos of the tiniest bits of the stuff that make us human.

Andrew successfully defended his dissertation and received his PhD on November 20, 2015.

Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his groundbreaking work in mapping DNA repair.

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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

Grad student Andrew Monteith receives a 2016 GEAB Impact Award

The Man Behind the Nobel Prize

Motion Pictures of Micro Anatomy

Grad student Andrew Monteith receives his PhD

Aziz Sancar receives 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry