6 years ago
Pengda Liu receives grant from Gabrielle’s Angels
Pengda Liu receives a Medical Research Grant from Gabrielle’s Angels Foundation to study “Targeting innate immunity independent STING function in treating AML”
Tag: Faculty & Lab News
6 years ago
Virtual Coaching Services Available to Faculty
The Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development is offering virtual coaching to all School of Medicine faculty. Services include peer and executive coaching.
6 years ago
Guidelines for Resuming Research Operations on June 1
In this memo, Blossom Damania, PhD, Vice Dean for Research at the UNC School of Medicine, outlines measures to allow the safe resumption of lab-based and human subjects research at the UNC School of Medicine. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, research across campus has been limited to minimal critical activities and research related to …
6 years ago
COVID-19 Funding Opportunity Tracking
The UNC Office of Research Development is aggregating COVID-19 funding opportunities for the research community. The UNC Office of Research Development is centrally tracking COVID-19 funding opportunities to provide a resource to the campus-wide research community. The funding opportunities are listed on the COVID-19 Funding Opportunities website linked here. Information about COVID-19 funding opportunities will be added to the page as they become available.
6 years ago
SOM Mental Health, Emotional Support Resources
The Mental Health/Emotional Support Resources website provides resources for all UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health system employees. The Mental Health / Emotional Support Resources website provides resources for all UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health system employees. During an infectious disease outbreak like COVID-19, it is not uncommon for people to experience …
6 years ago
Announcing our new Student Services Specialist Holly Shepherd!
Our new Student Services Specialist Holly Shepherd will be joining the department of Biochemistry and Biophysics on May 26, 2020.
6 years ago
UNC-Chapel Hill Launches Tar Heels Together Website
The University Development Office at UNC Chapel Hill created a Tar Heels Together website to connect community and share Carolina stories. The University Development Office created an innovative, dynamic way to connect people, share information, and build community during this time of isolation: The Tar Heels Together website, a “one stop shop” where friends and supporters of Carolina …
6 years ago
Congrats to Robert H Lee, Brinkhous Early Career Investigator Award winner!
Lee's work involved a study that yields insights on DAPT safety in thrombocytopenia & the best use of platelet transfusion for bleeding reversal.
6 years ago
Test could simplify cervical cancer screenings
UNC Lineberger researchers are working on a test that could provide a less invasive option for monitoring patients at risk for cervical cancer. UNC Lineberger’s Gaorav Gupta, MD, PhD, and Shivani Sud, MD, are launching a pilot study of a test to monitor patients at risk for cervical cancer by tracking levels of human papillomavirus, or …
6 years ago
Request or Offer Help through the UNC SOM Support Exchange Website
The website, launched by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development, connects members of the SOM community with personal and professional services needed during the COVID-19 crisis and response. The resource is available to all members of the SOM community.
6 years ago
Neher lab publishes CryoEM structure in PNAS
Researchers in Saskia Neher's lab have used cryoelectron microscopy (CryoEM) to solve the structure of the protein lipoprotein lipase (LPL) forming a novel helical assembly.
6 years ago
MacInFac Wins NCBC IIG Grant
The Macromolecular Interactions Facility (MacInFac) recently applied for and was just awarded, a North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC) innovation impact grant for a Biacore 8K, a high-throughput Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) -based biosensor.