Wolfgang Bergmeier, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UNC, has been awarded the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) Outstanding Investigator Award (R35), which supports accomplished leaders in blood research.

Todd Cohen, PhD, and Jonathan Schisler, PhD, will investigate the new ideas related to the regulation of the Tau protein, which plays a role in Alzheimer’s disease.

Liu was one of 28 scientists who were awarded V Scholar Grants in 2018 by the V Foundation for Cancer Research. The two-year, $200,000 grants are designed to identify and advance innovative young scientists who are establishing their research careers.

UNC researchers including Leslie Parise, PhD and doctoral student Alex Chung have designed a novel way to attack an aggressive breast cancer. By working with a drug development company, they hope their laboratory discovery will translate to a new treatment combination in the clinic in the future.

University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center has awarded $1.35 million in developmental research grants to 14 cancer research projects led by faculty members from UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State University and East Carolina University. The recipients were chosen from a pool of 51 applications submitted in the fall. Review involved a committee of 35 …

Images by UNC School of Medicine scientists including Cook lab were among those chosen for an exhibition of work by at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, gifted one of 3 replicas of the Nobel Prize medal UNC. It is now on display in the newly installed numismatics exhibit at the Wilson Special Collections Library.

The Office of Graduate Education and Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development recognized 10 faculty members with Excellence in Basic Science Mentoring Awards this week.

The Office of Graduate Education at the UNC School of Medicine will recognize 10 faculty members from across UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus as Excellence in Basic Science Mentoring Award winners at a January 15 ceremony with a keynote address. 4 of the 10 are associated with our department.

To study gut bacteria, scientists focus much of their attention on excrement, which is teeming with bacteria that used to live in the gastrointestinal tract. For the sake of scientific accuracy, this experimental poop has needed a name. And now it has one thanks to UNC School of Medicine scientist Aadra Bhatt, PhD, and colleagues.

The LLS grant will enable Wang lab to carry out unbiased oncogene target screening and shift towards new therapies of hematological malignancies.

photo of Joe Eron MD and Brian Kuhlman PhD

The UNC School of Medicine selected professors from the departments of medicine and biochemistry & biophysics for the annual award in honor of the late Oliver Smithies, UNC’s first Nobel Prize winner.

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Wolfgang Bergmeier awarded NHLBI Outstanding Investigator Award (R35)

Cohen, Schisler awarded $3.1 million Alzheimer’s grant

Pengda Liu PhD awarded V Scholar Grant

Researchers discover potential attack strategy for aggressive breast cancer

UNC Lineberger awards $1.35M for cancer research

Art and science come together in N.C. Museum of Art exhibition

Sancar’s Replica Nobel Medal Now on Display at Wilson Library

Senior Faculty Honored with Basic Science Mentoring Awards

Ten UNC Faculty Members Earn Mentoring Awards

In Fimo: Finally a Name for the Experimental Examination of Excrement

G. Greg Wang received a Career Development Program grant from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Eron, Kuhlman named Smithies Investigators