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Natasha Snider and Mark Zylka Receive 2020-21 Award for Excellence in Basic Science Mentoring from the Office of Graduate Education

Each year the Office of Graduate Education recognizes faculty mentors affiliated with the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program (BBSP) who embody innovative and student-centered training, and an excellence in mentoring graduate students. These faculty members are honored for their work through … Continued

Keith Burridge, PhD – Kenan Distinguished Professor

This is a great time to be a scientist. Never have so many techniques been available that are allowing questions in cell biology and physiology to be investigated at a level that was inconceivable just a few years ago."
-Keith Burridge, PhD

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Graham Diering’s poster, from the virtual SFN, was covered in Spectrum, an online advocacy magazine for the autism community. Click here to read article.

Greg Scherrer, PhD, associate professor in the UNC Department of Cell biology and Physiology and member of the UNC Neuroscience Center, will use the three-year, $300,000 grant to study the neural basis of pain. Click here for article.

The past few months have shown how difficult—and how important—it is to be able to understand how a disease really works. Scientists and researchers at the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic are rapidly learning everything they can about the novel coronavirus: how it functions, how different cells in the body react to it, and why those …

SFARI’s (Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative) mission is to improve the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders by funding innovative research of the highest quality and relevance. The grant awarded will support research that investigates genetic and epigenetic mechanisms, neural circuits changes and the development of genetic therapies in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). …

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