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.

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...

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...

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 …

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....

A.J. Hinton PhD of STEM Tea chats with Drs. Chrystal Starbird and Aileen Fernandez about how institutions can make meaningful diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) improvements. They talk about the needs of DEI and how this should be incorporated into the classroom from schools to undergraduate and postgraduate studies and beyond.

First author postdoc Zhichuan Zhu PhD, Liu lab, Jean Cook, and collaborators publish in Advanced Science available online Nov. 29, 2022 "STING Suppresses Mitochondrial VDAC2 to Govern RCC Growth Independent of Innate Immunity." STING was identified in 2008 as a critical innate immune sensor to antagonize viral/bacterial infection. Inactivation of STING especially by epigenetic silencing has been shown to facilitate tumor progression. Efforts from various UNC and BCBP labs have recently identified an innate immunity-independent function of STING in kidney cancer that can be explored as a potential therapeutic target in treating kidney cancer...

On November 21, 2022, the Biochemistry and Biophysics department gathered from across campus to share in a lunch for Thanksgiving in Genetic Medicine Building conference room 3007. We enjoyed Mediterranean deli and potluck dishes, sides and desserts. It was great to meet people in-person from across campus and see such a good turnout for our …

Dr. Chrystal Ama Starbird will be establishing her new lab in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...

This publication is the result of collaboration with many researchers from UNC Biochemistry and Biophysics, Lineberger, University of Texas Southwestern, University of Edinburgh, Center for Epigenetics-Van Andel Institute, and Yale. First co-authors are Drs. Xijuan Liu and Jun Wang. Congratulations on your publication in Nature! Subjects: Breast cancer, Epigenetics, Gene Expression.

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2022 School of Medicine Research Roundup

Carolina maintains its rankings as a leading U.S. research institution

Xian Chen PhD featured on The Proteomics Show podcast “Road to Chicago” series

2022 Holiday Party Highlights and Award presentations

UNC: 2022 Research in Review

Dr. Starbird on STEM Tea podcast “Continuing the DEI journey in STEM”

Researchers publish in Advanced Science: Innate immunity-independent STING function is identified as a vulnerability in kidney cancer

BCBP gathers for Thanksgiving lunch

Dr. Chrystal Ama Starbird to join faculty and establish lab in Feb. 2023

postdoc Jun Wang first co-author publishes in Nature Genetics “Histone H3 proline 16 hydroxylation regulates mammalian gene expression”