The Bergmeier lab recently collaborated with colleagues at Harvard Medical School on a significant study titled “Coagulation factor XII haploinsufficiency is protective against venous thromboembolism in a population-scale multidimensional analysis“. This work was published in Nature Communications. Congratulations to David Paul, PhD, research assistant professor, who is listed as the second author on this important …

The Special Master’s Program for employees in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics enables laboratory employees to pursue a Master’s degree on a part-time basis while working full-time in the Department.

photo of Dale Ramsden, Ph.D., UNC Prof. and Dir. of Graduate Studies for Biochemistry & Biophysics

Dr. Dale Ramsden receives Battle Award for groundbreaking genome stability research. Dr. Dale Ramsden was honored with the 2024 Hyman L. Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award at a ceremony on August 18 in the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center atrium, surrounded by colleagues and supporters. Read more.

Josh Strauss Core director of the UNC Cryo-EM

Dr. Joshua Strauss, Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Director of the UNC Cryo-EM Core, was awarded an NIH S10 High End Instrumentation grant to purchase a 300 keV cryogenic-transmission electron microscope.

In a surprising twist, UNC scientists discovered that SETD2, a tumor suppressor, also preserves nuclear structure during cell division—a hidden role that may explain its tumor-suppressive effects in cancer. UNC biochemists Brian Strahl, PhD, and Abid Khan, PhD, discovered that the enzyme also plays a crucial structural role in preserving the shape and integrity of the nucleus – part of the cell that stores DNA.

Jean Cook and lab thumbnail from the video from summer 2025

The Cook Lab at UNC investigates how cell proliferation is regulated and how diseases disrupt these processes. Their work provides the foundation for developing targeted therapies that have shown promising success in treating cancers such as breast cancer.

Research at UNC has doubled over the past 12 years, firmly establishing Carolina as one of America’s top-ranked research universities.

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Researchers in the lab of Jean Cook, PhD, chair and professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, have identified the cellular processes that occur when you take a cancer drug meant to stop rapid cell growth in tumors.

Gaorav Gupta, MD, PhD, Misty Good, MD, MS, and Jason Stein, PhD, were selected as Yang Family Biomedical Scholars in the eighth installment of this annual School of Medicine award.

Gaorav Gupta, MD, PhD, Misty Good, MD, MS, and Jason Stein, PhD, were selected as Yang Family Biomedical Scholars in the 8th installment of this annual School of Medicine award. Yang Family Biomedical Scholars Award Seminar will be held on Friday, July 11, 2025, from 12:30pm-2pm in Kirkland Auditorium, Koury Oral Health Sciences Building.

Dr. Chris Travis wearing a suit standing outside in 2025

Welcome to the new Director of the UNC Macromolecular Interactions Facility, Dr. Chris Travis. Before joining UNC, Chris spent time at GSK at a medicinal chemistry co-op working on a program in the pre-clinical stage...

Dr. Qi Zhang, Professor and Associate Chair of Community and Engagement in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, has been named the inaugural Arrel Toews Research and Teaching Distinguished Term Professor, effective July 1, 2025.

We are enormously grateful for everything Dr. Ash Tripathy has done for UNC research and the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics over the last 25+ years, and we wish him a relaxing and well-deserved retirement.

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Bergmeier lab recently collaborated with colleagues at Harvard Medical School

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics enables laboratory employees to pursue a Master’s degree

Dale Ramsden receives Battle Award for groundbreaking genome stability research

Strauss Receives NIH S10 HEI to Purchase Cryo-TEM for UNC Cryo-EM Core

UNC Scientists Uncover Hidden Role of Tumor Suppressor Gene in Protecting the Genome

Cook lab research video published on UNC Health YouTube

UNC Research Facts and Rankings

Researchers Learn How Cancer Cells Divide Despite Treatment

Congratulations to the 2024-25 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars

Dr. Chris Travis will serve as New Director of the UNC Macromolecular Interactions Facility

Dr. Qi Zhang Named Inaugural Arrel Toews Research and Teaching Distinguished Term Professor

Dr. Ash Tripathy to step down as Core Director from the Macromolecular Interactions on July 1