Congratulations to Dr. Yanyan Yang on her promotion to Research Assistant Professor.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health awarded the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health a $65 million grant establishing an Antiviral Drug Discovery Center to develop oral antivirals that can combat pandemic-level viruses like COVID-19. The center builds upon and is tightly affiliated with UNC’s Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative. The READDI-AViDD Center, one of nine established by the NIH, is an integrated public-private partnership with a renowned, interdisciplinary research team of experts from the Gillings School, UNC School of Medicine and UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. They will apply cutting-edge technologies to develop oral therapies that target viral families with high potential to cause a pandemic in the future.

Project Title: Cancer Hijacks Enzyme Substrate Mutations to Facilitate Tumorigenesis

All permanent faculty are encouraged to complete our Mentoring Climate Survey. Completion of the survey will help TEAM ADVANCE understand how faculty are mentored at UNC-Chapel Hill. Faculty are asked to complete the survey whether they completed the survey in past years.

Yesterday marked the start of UNC’s Researcher Appreciation Week. We are so thankful for each and every one of you! Please check out this video of UNC leadership recognizing your contributions and the incredible work you do every day.

Brian Kuhlman standing with his ebike in front of his home

May is National Bike Month and Bike to Work Week is May 16-22, 2022. Today was an e-bike day for Brian Kuhlman. Brandy Curtis, a third-year graduate student always bikes to Amy Gladfelter's lab in the Genome Sciences Building. We encourage members of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics who ride their bikes to the lab to tag us on social media this month.

photo of David S. Paul PhD Research Associate

Congratulations to Dr. David S. Paul on his promotion to Research Assistant Professor on May 11, 2022.

The National Institutes of Health is sponsoring up to 12 monetary prize awards with a total prize purse of up to $500,000 to reward innovative use of data sharing and reuse and the advancement research discoveries.

Congratulations to Ramos lab and UNC collaborators for their recent publication in Nucleic Acids Research describing the discovery of a novel mRNA target, Elavl2, for the RNA binding protein, ZFP36L2. Congratulations to first-co-authors Ian C. Redmon and Matthew Ardizzone, undergraduate researchers in the Biochemistry and Biophysics department, and Hilal Hekimoğlu, an International visiting master’s student and to all authors!

Collective large group picture under the tree at our building

The BCBP Environmental Task Force (ETF) held a department-wide event with pizza and free t-shirts outside the Genetic Medicine Building on Friday, April 22, 2022, to celebrate all the progress towards environmental sustainability that we have made over this past year.

Judy Bond former President of ASBMB, ASBMB's current president Toni Antalis of University of Maryland School of Medicine, Greg Wang, and ASBMB's president-elect Ann Stock of Rutgers University–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Greg G. Wang, PhD, an associate professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and joint Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, won the 2022 ASBMB Young Investigator Award, which recognizes outstanding research contributions to biochemistry and molecular biology and contributions to the community of scientists.

Dr. Robert Lee, in collaboration with members of the Bergmeier lab, the Flick lab, and international collaborators, recently published their studies on the effect of uninhibited signaling by the small GTPase Rap1 on platelet homeostasis.

Tag: Faculty & Lab News

Yanyan Yang promoted to Research Assistant Professor

UNC-Chapel Hill receives $65M from NIH for antiviral drug development center

Pengda Liu PhD receives a grant from NIH National Cancer Institute

Mentoring Climate Survey for Faculty

This week is UNC’s Researcher Appreciation Week, view video

Bike to Work Week 2022 is May 16-22

David Paul promoted to Research Assistant Professor

FASEB and NIH Partner on DataWorks! Prize to Highlight Power of Data Sharing and Reuse

Ramos lab publishes RNA research in Nucleic Acids Research

BCBP celebrates Earth Day 2022 with Environmental Task Force!

Congrats to Greg Wang PhD ASBMB Young Investigator (April 2022)

Dr. Robert Lee, Bergmeier Lab Published: Journal of Clinical Investigation Insight