2 years ago
Starting March 7, masks will no longer be required in most University buildings. This change follows UNC System guidance and comes after the Orange County Health Department announced that starting Monday the county’s indoor mask requirement will be lifted. Masks will still be required on Chapel Hill Transit and in all health care settings on campus.
2 years ago
The NC TraCS Institute announced on March 1, 2022, that Silvia Kreda Ph.D. and her collaborators received a Translational Team Science Award, plus 2 other teams!
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Researchers at UNC-CH Biochemistry and Biophysics and Lineberger have uncovered a new role of a chromatin-modulatory enzyme, termed EZH2, during cancer development. They then developed a new therapeutic approach with a potent small-molecule inhibitor of this enzyme. Published online "EZH2 noncanonically binds cMyc and p300 through a cryptic transactivation domain to mediate gene activation and promote oncogenesis" in Nature Cell Biology on February 24, 2022.
2 years ago
Congratulations to Pengda Liu, Associate professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, effective March 1st, 2022.
2 years ago
The School of Medicine Office of Research has released its 2021 Research Round-up publication. This annual publication features 1-2 highlights over the past year that are submitted by each SOM Department.
2 years ago
Ron Swanstrom, PhD, the Charles P. Postelle, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, was featured on Science Friday on NPR, discussing COVID-19 treatments along with fellow virologist Adam Lauring, PhD, at the University of Michigan.
2 years ago
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded $1.5 million to Charles Carter, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, who will lead lab experiments showing how critical molecules precisely interacted, evolved together, and led to life on Earth billions of years ago.
2 years ago
News for UNC Biochemistry and Biophysics department and Ph.D. graduate student programs for January 3, 2022 - February 4, 2022. Read from 30 news posts from University Teaching Awards, new Grant Awards, breakthrough research discoveries, Student spotlights, new PhDs!, highlighted publications, welcome new staff, to our Wellness/Mental Health, and Diversity and Inclusion news.
2 years ago
Charlie Carter, Pendga Liu, Saskia Neher, Greg Wang, and other SOM faculty with project start dates from 1/1/2022 -1/15/2022 (the awards listed have a total award amount greater than $100,000).
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Our researchers optimized the function of a microscope for cryogenic electron microscopy (CryoEM) to maximize the throughput and performance of the microscope housed in the UNC-Chapel Hill Cryo-EM Core Facility. This method development is demonstrated successful for structural studies of GPCRs, a large group of signaling proteins that includes many therapeutic targets with unknown structures.
2 years ago
In the fall of 2021, the Biochemistry and Biophysics departmental Environmental Task Force started a Green Lab program to encourage labs to use sustainable practices. EFT provides an update on how labs can participate.
2 years ago
"Our findings may help explain, for example, why certain portions of the genome are relatively susceptible to DNA damage during replication in some cancer cells," Dr. Jean Cook told WRAL Tech Wire. The first author of the study is Liu Mei, PhD, postdoc.
