3 years ago
We would like to share that Shadow A Scientist, a graduate student-run organization that plans on-campus science outreach visits for students from underserved communities in NC, has been able to reach over 400 high school students!
3 years ago
Abigail Ballard, a BCBP PhD candidate in Wolfgang Bergmeier’s lab, was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
3 years ago
The AHA Predoctoral Fellowship Programis designed to help students initiate careers aimed at improving global cardiovascular health by providing research assistance and training.
3 years ago
Grad student Edgar Faison and Zhang lab collaborated with Dr. Ramamoorthy's group at the University of Michigan to use polymer nanodiscs as a novel alignment medium for measuring residual dipolar couplings on RNA.
3 years ago
Links to impact report. UNC Inventions include therapeutics, research tools/methods, biomarkers/diagnostics, drug delivery, imaging, and much more. Congruent with Carolina’s research pipeline that is focused heavily on biomedical endeavors, the majority of its licenses are in the life sciences sector. 36 % of licenses were related to tangible property (research tools, including mice, cell lines, and antibodies). The Innovation Hub and Downtown District coming soon.
3 years ago
Congratulations to Rodney Park Ph.D. (2022 alum) who has a first-author publication "Designer installation of a substrate recruitment domain to tailor enzyme specificity" which was published in Nature Chemical Biology on December 12, 2022.
3 years ago
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 …
3 years ago
Please join us in congratulating Jean Marie Mwiza, co-mentored by Wolfgang Bergmeier and Alisa Wolberg, who gave a fantastic presentation on his thesis work last Friday entitled, "Determining the Platelet Signaling Pathway(s) Critical in Venous Thrombosis Pathogenesis.” Jean Marie is already a doctor (of veterinary medicine), but now he can add another degree to his arsenal.
3 years ago
Read about our seven graduates who earned degrees in Biochemistry and Biophysics between August and December 2022.
3 years ago
UNC Faculty Council members heard updates on raises for graduate students, campus safety, the all-funds budget and student-athlete mental health. - Emily Padula, The Well
3 years ago
Tatyana Bodrug under the direction of Dr. Nicholas G. Brown successfully defended her dissertation on November 30, 2022, and received her PhD!
3 years ago
The Department ranks fifth among all Biochemistry departments in the US, (both public and private institutions) in 2021, and 3rd among public institutions. We received over $19.3 million in funding from NIH in 2021.