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We are delighted to announce that Dr. Clint Stalnecker will join the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, effective December 15, 2025. He will also be appointed as a full member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Stalnecker’s research centers on signaling dynamics associated with resistance to targeted therapies in …
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Patricia F. Maness, Ph.D., received her doctorate in Biochemistry in 1975 from the University of Texas. She was an Anna Fuller Fund Postdoctoral Fellow from 1978-1980 at the Rockefeller University in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Dr. Gerald M. Edelman, and Assistant Professor. Since 1980 Dr. Maness has served on the faculty of the University …
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Dalia Fleifel PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the Cook lab, was awarded the Oral Presentation Award for Basic Science at the Lineberger Trainee Research Day for her presentation entitled "MYC Breaks the Brakes: Reprogramming DNA replication origin Licensing in G1 phase"
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We’re thrilled to announce that our team has been awarded a Multi-PI R01 grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) for the project titled: “Epigenetic Regulation of Nuclear cGAS Activity in Aging-Related Inflammation.” This is a multi-PI initiative led by Qi Zhang and Pengda Liu, with key contributions from co-investigators Brian Strahl and Rob McGinty.
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We invite prospective students to discover the wide-ranging educational opportunities and supportive networks within our department. Our commitment to fostering innovative research and leadership extends to multiple pathways, including our PhD, certificate, and master’s programs.
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Congratulations to Darex Vera Rodriquez, PhD, from the Lee lab, who earned his degree on September 15, 2025. A major part of his dissertation was recently published in The Protein Society journal as “A flexible, allosteric loop regulates protein activity and rewires electrostatics.” Read more...
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Researchers found that inhibiting a problematic protein in the body helps immunotherapies and CAR T-cell therapy to better fight off melanoma.
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Riya Gohil a graduate student in Jill Dowen's lab presented at the 3MT finals on October 21, 2025 during UNC Research Week. The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is an academic competition where graduate students have just three minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their research project to a non-specialist audience. She was one of the ten outstanding graduate students selected to compete in the 2025 3MT Finals.
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Drs. Lee and Bergmeier contributed to an eBook on Platelet Physiology I (Springer Nature) – now available in stores. The chapter was co-authored by Dr. Lucia Stefanini, a former Bergmeier lab member and colleague at UNC.
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Dr. Konstantin Popov’s lab is pioneering the use of artificial intelligence to design new drug compounds for diseases like tuberculosis and cancer. By combining AI modeling with hands-on chemistry and biology, Popov’s team has created powerful, biologically feasible molecules...
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Clint Stalnecker, Assistant Professor, was named a Forbeck Scholar by the William Guy Forbeck Research Foundation on October 17, 2025, and will attend the May 3-6, 2026, meeting on “Causes and Consequences of Cellular Plasticity in Cancer” in Princeton, NJ. He joins our faculty in the Fall, and his laboratory is located within Lineberger.
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Dr. Joshua Strauss, Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Director of the UNC Cryo-EM Core, was awarded an NIH S10 High End Instrumentation grant to purchase a 300 keV cryogenic-transmission electron microscope.