Tag: Faculty News

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health awarded the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health a $65 million grant establishing an Antiviral Drug Discovery Center to develop oral antivirals that can combat pandemic-level viruses like COVID-19. The center builds upon and is tightly affiliated with UNC’s Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative. The READDI-AViDD Center, one of nine established by the NIH, is an integrated public-private partnership with a renowned, interdisciplinary research team of experts from the Gillings School, UNC School of Medicine and UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. They will apply cutting-edge technologies to develop oral therapies that target viral families with high potential to cause a pandemic in the future.

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All permanent faculty are encouraged to complete our Mentoring Climate Survey. Completion of the survey will help TEAM ADVANCE understand how faculty are mentored at UNC-Chapel Hill. Faculty are asked to complete the survey whether they completed the survey in past years.

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Yesterday marked the start of UNC’s Researcher Appreciation Week. We are so thankful for each and every one of you! Please check out this video of UNC leadership recognizing your contributions and the incredible work you do every day.

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May is National Bike Month and Bike to Work Week is May 16-22, 2022. Today was an e-bike day for Brian Kuhlman. Brandy Curtis, a third-year graduate student always bikes to Amy Gladfelter's lab in the Genome Sciences Building. We encourage members of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics who ride their bikes to the lab to tag us on social media this month.

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Congratulations to Dr. David S. Paul on his promotion to Research Assistant Professor on May 11, 2022.

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The National Institutes of Health is sponsoring up to 12 monetary prize awards with a total prize purse of up to $500,000 to reward innovative use of data sharing and reuse and the advancement research discoveries.

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Get support, resources, training, and more from the Heels Care Network.

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Congratulations to Ramos lab and UNC collaborators for their recent publication in Nucleic Acids Research describing the discovery of a novel mRNA target, Elavl2, for the RNA binding protein, ZFP36L2. Congratulations to first-co-authors Ian C. Redmon and Matthew Ardizzone, undergraduate researchers in the Biochemistry and Biophysics department, and Hilal Hekimoğlu, an International visiting master’s student and to all authors!

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The BCBP Environmental Task Force (ETF) held a department-wide event with pizza and free t-shirts outside the Genetic Medicine Building on Friday, April 22, 2022, to celebrate all the progress towards environmental sustainability that we have made over this past year.

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Greg G. Wang, PhD, an associate professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and joint Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, won the 2022 ASBMB Young Investigator Award, which recognizes outstanding research contributions to biochemistry and molecular biology and contributions to the community of scientists.

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