December 15, 2021
Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced awards of $1,320,000 to nine interdisciplinary teams in the final year of Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell, an initiative launched in 2018 to spark collaborative research that could advance fundamental understanding of chemical machinery and reactions in the intact cell. Stephanie …
October 25, 2021
Led by Ben Philpot, PhD, and Matt Judson, PhD, the new therapy was generally well-tolerated and prevented key signs of the condition in animal models. Click here for article.
September 9, 2021
Margeaux Marbrey recently received the Bayer Discovery/Innovation Grant for Additional Funding from the Society for Reproductive Investigation for her proposed work to examine the implications of e-cigarette use in polycystic ovarian syndrome. Findings from these studies will further understanding of how polycystic ovarian syndrome modulates the initiation and maintenance of pregnancy and interrogate how e-cigarettes …
July 29, 2021
The UNC School of Medicine Office of Graduate Education published findings in PLOS Biology showing that graduate students who partake in professional development opportunities unrelated to their lab work did not delay their time to graduation or their rate of manuscript publication. Click here for UNC news story. An article in Science about this work …
July 15, 2021
Future Science Group named Michelle Itano, PhD, as the new Editor-in-Chief for BioTechniques, the International Journal of Life Science Methods. Click here for article.
July 8, 2021
Damaris Lorenzo, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, led the discovery of a new neurodevelopmental syndrome, its underlying genetic basis and molecular mechanisms, both important milestones on the road to create therapeutic strategies. Click here for story.
June 25, 2021
Click here to view the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology letter sent to the BOT on Thursday, June 24, 2021 in support of Lux Libertas.
June 24, 2021
The Society’s Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture is a prestigious biennial lecture, awarded to distinguished physiologists working outside the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. Click here for article.
June 23, 2021
The following letter was sent to Richard Y. Stevens, UNC Board of Trustees Chair, on June 21, 2021 Dear Mr. Stevens: We write this letter in response to the call for action of our elected Faculty Chair, Frank A. Daniels Distinguished Professor Mimi Chapman. We are unified in our faculty voice in response to …
June 9, 2021
Congratulations to Hannah J. Wiedner, B.Sc., a graduate student, GMB curriculum, in the Giudice Lab, and Jimena Giudice, Ph.D., a MHI member and Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, for publishing review article, titled “It’s not just a phase: function and characteristics of RNA-binding proteins in phase separation” in Nature Structure & Molecular Biology. …
