Zhang lab develops a new imaging technique helps UNC researchers study tiny, time-sensitive biological processes – the crucial underpinnings of human health and disease.

Blood Advances From the cover. Bergmeier lab image has been selected for the cover of Blood Advances 1:18 issue.

Congratulations to Saskia Neher, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics who received a Basic Science Award from the National Lipid Association (NLA)!

UNC and University of Florida researchers created viruses to deliver gene therapies while evading pre-existing immune system responses. Congratulations to Aravind Asokan, Assistant Professor of Genetics with a Joint Appointment in Biochemistry and Biophysics of whose findings provide a road map for designing virus strains that can evade neutralizing antibodies.

Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD (photo by Max Englund, UNC Health Care)

A new technique from UNC School of Medicine scientists led by Nobel Prize winner Aziz Sancar reveals the genome-wide DNA damage that a major carcinogen causes.

UNC study uncovers crucial function of a yeast enzyme Set2 whose well-conserved human counterpart is often mutated in cancers, especially kidney cancer.

Leslie Parise Ph.D. (photo credit Jon Gardiner)

Leslie Parise, professor and chair of biochemistry and biophysics, has been elected to a three-year term as chair of the faculty beginning on July 1, 2017.

Robert McGinty, Ph.D., M.D., 2017 Pew-Steawrt and Searle Scholar

Robert McGinty, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor in Pharmacy with a joint appointment in the department of biochemistry and biophysics has been selected as both a 2017 Searle and a Pew-Stewart Scholar. He is the first Searle Scholar named at the University of North Carolina in the past 10 years.

Congratulations to Leslie Parise, professor and chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics on her election as the new President of AMGDB to begin in January, 2018.

Cassandra Hayne, working with Saskia Neher, PhD, found that a specific mutated version of a lipoprotein binds more effectively to liver cells, thus explaining decreased levels of triglycerides in blood.

Congratulations to Wolfgang Bergmeier, associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics who was just named as a new associate editor for the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.

Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, Nobel Laureate (Photo by Max Englund, UNC School of Medicine)

Congratulations to Qi Zhang, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics who received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF)!

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Bergmeier Blood Advances cover

Neher receives Jr. Faculty Research Award from NLA

Newly designed viral vectors could lead to improved gene therapies

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Researchers show how a cancer gene protects genome organization

Parise elected UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Chair

McGinty Awarded 2017 Pew-Stewart and Searle Scholarships to Pursue Cancer Research

Parise Nominated as President-Elect of AMGDB

UNC research helps answer why genetic mutation leads to decreased triglycerides in blood

Bergmeier nominated to serve as an associate editor for JTH

Zhang receives a CAREER award from the NSF