5 years ago
Congrats Damaris Lorenzo and research team including Brenda Temple Professor of BCBP & Core Director of Structural Bioinformatics! The research team will continue to tap into molecular modeling predictions in collaboration with the UNC Structural Bioinformatics Core.
5 years ago
The School of Medicine promotions criteria have been finalized by the Provost and go into effect July 1 2021. Please contact Steven Torchio, HR consultant, for the 43 page “Guidelines for Appointment, Reappointment, and Promotion” document published in May 2021 by UNC SOM Human Resources. For more information on the updated CV guidelines, sample DEI …
5 years ago
UNC School of Medicine has created the SOM Intranet to assist us in finding internal information in one central location. How can I access the SOM Intranet? On the front home page of our Biochemistry and Biophysics website, go to the lower right hand corner of the website, click on Intranet.
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Greg Wang and a collaborative team of researchers have uncovered a new mechanism that activates specific genes, leading to the development of cancers. This research was led by postdoc Jeong Hyun Ahn PhD from Greg Wang’s lab.
5 years ago
Researchers Silvia Kreda, PhD, and Rudolph Juliano, PhD, created an improved oligonucleotide therapy strategy with the potential for treating other pulmonary diseases, such as COPD and asthma. Their research was published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research.
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Pengda Liu, PhD, and colleagues have discovered a gene, OTUD7A, that impacts the development of Ewing sarcoma, a bonecancer that occurs mainly in children, as well as a compound that shows potential to block OTUD7A protein activity.
5 years ago
Please click on the link to view the video segment and read the full story by Nexstar Media Inc. Read more about this research "Liu and Jiang Labs...
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Two postdocs Drs. Siyuan Su and Jianfeng Chen and a BBSP graduate student Ying Wang in Pengda Liu Lab led this study during the pandemic. Lilly Wong from Guochun Jiang Lab plays a major role in in-vitro infection models.
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Congratulations to Shuai Zhao PhD for his timely comprehensive review article in Nature Reviews Cancer.
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Crilly said she chose to attend UNC-Chapel Hill because of its reputation as a research institution. At Carolina, she studies under Gary Pielak, a Kenan Distinguished Professor, and is a part of his research group. “When I got to UNC, I wanted to mentor people, and mentorship is a big part of his lab,” Dr. Pielak holds a joint appointment at the UNC School of Medicine in Biochemistry and Biophysics.
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On Saturday May 15, 2021, Mary Sue Coleman (’69 Ph.D.), Carolina alumna and former president of the Association of American Universities (AAU) addressed the participants at The Graduate School’s 2021 Virtual Doctoral Hooding celebration. Link to video.
5 years ago
Congrats on the new publication: G.P.Gupta and Ramsden labs! “Marker-free quantification of repair pathway utilization at Cas9-induced double-strand breaks” Nucleic Acids Research. This was a collaborative effort with UNC Biochemistry and Biophysics, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC Department of Radiation Oncology, The Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, and UNC Pharmacy. Interested in DSB repair …