Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, The UNC School of Medicine research funding increased by more than $24 million during fiscal year 2020.

Keean Braceros, a graduate student in Mauro Calabrese’s lab was awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) on July 17, 2020.

message from Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz 7-21-2020

Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz, PhD, celebrates the hard work of Carolina’s researchers who have received record-high research funding and shares updates from last week’s Board of Trustees meeting.

The Department ranks fifth among all Biochemistry departments in the US, (both public and private institutions not just public) in 2019. We received over $18.6 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2019.

Effective August 1, work windows (shifts) will no longer be required in School of Medicine research labs but 50% occupancy and social distancing must still be observed.

In June 2020, the UNC Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (UNC-IMSD)** welcomed Dr. Debra Ragland as the new Assistant Director of the program. After earning a BS in Chemistry (NCA&T) and PhD in Structural Bioinformatics (UMass Medical Center), Dr. Ragland completed her postdoctoral training at the UNC SOM. She has returned to the UNC SOM from Clemson University where she served as faculty in the Department of Genetics and Biochemistry.

If you are part of any particular group or not, but above all, would like to be part of the BCBP Diversity Committee please send me a brief email. We hope to have students, post-docs, staff and faculties represented. Time commitment is 1h a month and we will be working remotely. We all appreciate your …

Thank You For keeping Our Research Running Smoothly

We would like to extend a big thank you to the dedicated support groups that have kept our research active during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are in gratitude for the flexibility & hard work of these outstanding members of our community.

This is a weekly update on the campus Roadmap to Fall 2020 from the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of the Provost, issued Thursday June 25.

Brian Strahl and graduate student Julia F

In the journal Cell Reports, Brian Strahl, PhD, and colleagues engineered a genome regulator to reveal its important biological functions of genome access. Inside our cells, DNA is tightly packed and spooled around proteins called histones. Packaging DNA in this way allows large amounts of genetic material to exist inside the cell in a final …

Jennifer M. Potter-Birriel, under the direction of Dr. Bill Marzluff, successfully defended her dissertation and received her Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology on June 3rd, 2020. The title of her dissertation is “A region of Drosophila SLBP distinct from the histone pre-mRNA binding and processing domains is essential for deposition of histone mRNA in …

In this memo, Blossom Damania, PhD, Vice Dean for Research at the UNC School of Medicine, outlines measures to allow the safe resumption of lab-based and human subjects research at the UNC School of Medicine. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, research across campus has been limited to minimal critical activities and research related to …

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UNC School of Medicine Research Funding Increases $24 million in FY20

Graduate Student Keean Braceros awarded F31

Thanking Carolina’s researchers: a video message from Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz

We rank 5th nationally in NIH funding in 2019!

Office of Research Releases Revision to Research Guidelines

UNC-IMSD WELCOMES NEW ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AND LAUNCHES PEER MENTORING INITIATIVE TO INCREASE SUPPORT FOR NEW STUDENTS DURING UNPRECEDENTED START TO GRAD SCHOOL

Invitation to serve on the BCBP Diversity Committee

Thank You For Keeping our Research Infrastructure Going

UNC-Chapel Hill Updates Roadmap to Fall 2020

Strahl Lab Decodes Another Piece of the Histone Code Puzzle

Jennifer M. Potter-Birriel earns her PhD!

Guidelines for Resuming Research Operations on June 1