The Office of Research Technologies and Office of Sponsored Programs are coordinating core tours of some of our fantastic core facilities during UNC Research Week. Meet the core directors and staff, learn about new and upcoming events, view our instrumentation, and imagine how collaboration with our cores can expand your science!

"Drawn to Explain" is international artist Amalia Pica's tribute to the discovery that happens on #UNC's campus. Learn how the Craige Parking Deck art installation features diagrams used by Tar Heels, including a Nobel Prize winner and a legendary coach.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will award up to $50 million over five years to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University to establish the Research Triangle Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation. The center will also involve collaborations with North Carolina State University and North Carolina Central University, a leading historically black university. Triangle CERSI, the newest of only five CERSIs across the country, will work with FDA scientists to perform cutting edge scientific research to better inform and support the FDA’s needs.

Brian Strahl, PhD, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, will serve in the role of interim assistant dean for research of the School of Medicine. This role is overseen by Vice Dean for Research Blossom Damania, PhD, and it focuses on overseeing the infrastructure, communication and development necessary to bolster the growing research enterprise of the School of Medicine.

The UNC School of Medicine is accepting applications for bridge and boost funding. The deadline for applications is April 24.

For this Women’s History Month, we would like to honor Mary Ellen Jones, PhD. You may recognize her name from the building that sits on the edge of the UNC Medical Center campus, but Jones is recognized for so much more.

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Scientists understand that about four billion years ago the basic molecules of biological life on Earth arose from a primordial soup of chemicals. But how did this process occur? Questions remain unanswered about exactly how the chaos of chemicals became ordered biology.

Brian Strahl, the interim chair and professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine, and Samantha Pattenden, associate professor at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy. (Photo by Sarah Daniels, Innovate Carolina)

The growing field of epigenetics holds the promise of future treatments for those facing cancer and rare diseases. Yet at the University, it’s not just the breakthrough potential of the field itself that’s exciting. It’s also how researchers from different departments are teaming up to push the science further and faster than they could do alone.

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Scientists at the lab of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Aziz Sancar MD PhD have made the surprising discovery that a molecule called EdU, which is commonly used in laboratory experiments to label DNA, is in fact recognized by human cells as DNA damage, triggering a runaway process of DNA repair that is eventually fatal to affected cells, including cancer cells. This is worthy of further investigation, especially for brain cancers.

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GiveUNC is a day like no other in support of a place like no other. Mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 28, 2023 — UNC-Chapel Hill’s annual day of giving. Support our biomedical students!

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Meditation is a powerful tool that improves both physical and mental health.

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Sharon Campbell, PhD, Gary F. Liebscer Distinguished Professor receives award for outstanding mentorship!

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Research Week Core Tours

A sculpture on campus honors Dr. Aziz Sancar Nobel Award winning research

UNC and Duke awarded $50 M from FDA for a new research center

Strahl Named Interim Assistant Dean for Research

SOM Office of Research Accepting Applications for Bridge and Boost Funding

Mary Ellen Jones: A Woman of Many Firsts

Exploring The Beginnings of Life

A Convergent Code

Killing Cancerous Brain Cells

Give UNC day is on March 28, 2023

List of Meditation spaces on campus

Sharon Campbell receives an Award for Excellent in Basic Science Mentoring