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.

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Call 919-962-HELP (4357) or use the Help Portal to search for answers or chat live with the ITS Service Desk.

There is new functionality in Outlook that will allow you to report phishing and junk with a quick and simple click of a button.

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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Strahl Named Interim Assistant Dean for Research

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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