3 months ago
Medipol University's faculty member Dr. Yasemin Kübra Akyel started to work in the laboratory and supervision of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar in December 2022. Akyel works in the fields of 'DNA Repair' and 'Circadian Rhythm' and has a fellowship from TÜBİTAK
3 months ago
Grad student Edgar Faison and Zhang lab collaborated with Dr. Ramamoorthy's group at the University of Michigan to use polymer nanodiscs as a novel alignment medium for measuring residual dipolar couplings on RNA.
3 months ago
Links to impact report. UNC Inventions include therapeutics, research tools/methods, biomarkers/diagnostics, drug delivery, imaging, and much more. Congruent with Carolina’s research pipeline that is focused heavily on biomedical endeavors, the majority of its licenses are in the life sciences sector. 36 % of licenses were related to tangible property (research tools, including mice, cell lines, and antibodies). The Innovation Hub and Downtown District coming soon.
3 months ago
Congratulations to Jill Dowen, Associate Professor in the Biochemistry & Biophysics Department and the Biology Department, who received tenure as a UNC faculty effective January 1, 2023.
3 months ago
For research highlights, see Page 2: Rick Baker and Kevin Cannon, Greg Wang. On page 7: Brian Kuhlman. Every year School of Medicine highlights two news items from every unit.
3 months ago
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released its 2021 fiscal year Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) data, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has once again ranked 10th for federal funding and 13th overall in the national research rankings for public and private universities...
3 months ago
Xian Chen PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics is featured on The Proteomics Show podcast "Road to Chicago" series highlighting speakers at the upcoming US HUPO meeting in Chicago in 2023...
3 months ago
The NIH has issued the Data Management and Sharing (DMS) policy, which will go into effect on January 25, 2023. Under the DMS policy, the NIH expects that investigators and institutions will (i) plan and budget for the managing and sharing of data; (ii) submit a DMS plan for review when applying for funding; and (iii) comply with the approved DMS plan. In order to support SOM researchers as they prepare for this, the Office of Research is offering a series of webinars to guide you in this new process.
3 months ago
End-of-Year Holiday Party Highlights The department of Biochemistry and Biophysics gathered on December 13, 2022, to celebrate our accomplishments over this past year. We had a large turnout of around 160 individuals including guests and children for this fantastic event culminating in 2022. The evening began with a sit-down formal dinner and meet and greet …
4 months ago
This year, we topped $1.2B in research awards, continuing our year-to-year growth in sponsored research activity and showing gains across most disciplines. Additionally, more than 30 researchers from Carolina made Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list as trailblazers among their peers. Those recognized had papers that ranked in the top 1% of citations for field and publication year....
