Liu lab received a NCI R01 grant to investigate novel function of cGAS in modulating breast cancer pathology. This five year grant will enable Liu lab to continue their current journey in investigation roles of innate immunity signaling in cancer.

The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research has awarded a five-year, $3.78 million grant to a team of UNC researchers to study to whether experimental tumor and blood tests can accurately detect HPV-linked head and neck cancer, predict if the cancer will respond to treatment, and identify which cancer will recur.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, The UNC School of Medicine research funding increased by more than $24 million during fiscal year 2020.

Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz, PhD, celebrates the hard work of Carolina’s researchers who have received record-high research funding and shares updates from last week’s Board of Trustees meeting.

The Department ranks fifth among all Biochemistry departments in the US, (both public and private institutions not just public) in 2019. We received over $18.6 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2019.

photo of Brian Strahl PhD Professor and Vice-chair in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Brian Strahl, PhD, has been named Interim Chair of the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics effective May 18, 2020. Strahl has served as Vice Chair of the Department since 2016.

Effective August 1, work windows (shifts) will no longer be required in School of Medicine research labs but 50% occupancy and social distancing must still be observed.

jack griffith sitting in front of the electron microscope

Jack Griffith, PhD, is co-author of a PNAS paper that shows the role the XPG protein plays in DNA repair in healthy human cells, as well as how different mutations can translate into different diseases and cancer.

Carolina experts are leveraging 40 years of HIV research to find a treatment for COVID-19.

We would like to extend a big thank you to the dedicated support groups that have kept our research active during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are in gratitude for the flexibility & hard work of these outstanding members of our community.

This is a weekly update on the campus Roadmap to Fall 2020 from the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of the Provost, issued Thursday June 25.

Congratulations to Biochemistry and Biophysics faculty Brenda Temple promoted from associate professor to full professor effective June 1, 2020. Brenda Temple PhD is the Core Director of Structural Bioinformatics. Her research specialties include: Bioinformatics, Molecular Structural Analysis, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Molecular Evolution, Molecular Modeling, Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction Structural Bioinformatics Website

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Liu Lab receives a NCI R01 grant

Gaorav Gupta and other researchers receive $3.78 M grant to study tumor mutation and blood tests for HPV-related head and neck cancers

UNC School of Medicine Research Funding Increases $24 million in FY20

Thanking Carolina’s researchers: a video message from Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz

We rank 5th nationally in NIH funding in 2019!

Strahl named Interim Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Office of Research Releases Revision to Research Guidelines

Enigmatic protein sculpts DNA to repair harmful damage

Ron Swanstrom highlighted in the FEATURE STORY “Expecting the Unexpected” from Endeavors

Thank You For Keeping our Research Infrastructure Going

UNC-Chapel Hill Updates Roadmap to Fall 2020

Congratulations to Brenda Temple promoted to full professor