February 27, 2023
The UNC departments of Neurology and Cell Biology & Physiology look forward to welcoming Dr. Shahzad Khan as an Assistant Professor of Cell Biology & Physiology, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Neurology. Dr. Khan obtained his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Virginia, under the mentorship of George Bloom, Ph.D. In …
February 24, 2023
The HEAL Director’s Award for Excellence in Research recognizes HEAL-funded investigators who exemplify research excellence, support broad dissemination of key research, and demonstrate leadership in the scientific community. The 2023 awardees’ development of experimental practices, models, and approaches have had a major, transformative impact on the pain and addiction research fields.
February 17, 2023
Jimena Giudice has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project entitled, “Mechanotransduction, transcription, and alternative splicing in cell biology” has been awarded for five years. CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty …
February 3, 2023
The Brennwald Lab have a new paper in the Journal of Cell Biology in collaboration with Rick Baker in the Biochemistry Department at UNC. This was the work of a talented postdoc in the lab (now an Assistant Professor at Hofstra University) Brittany Miller and Guendalina Rossi (Assistant Professor) as co lead authors who utilized …
January 26, 2023
Michelle Itano, PhD Receives CZI Grant to Help Train the Next Generation of Imaging Scientists. Click here to read more.
January 20, 2023
Eppin Pharma has partnered with the nonprofit Male Contraceptive Initiative (MCI), which has provided the company a program related investment of up to $800,000. Read full article featured on WRAL TechWire.
January 13, 2023
Memories from Diering’s life trace the rising star’s scientific path from raising lizards as a child and later exploring home brewing to heading a lab that investigates memory, sleep disturbances and early development in animals with autism-linked mutations. Asleep in the Mouse House with Graham Diering | Spectrum | Autism Research News
October 3, 2022
Join us in sending a HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Stephanie Gupton!! She has been promoted to Full Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, effective October 1, 2022.
September 2, 2022
The PARE Awards are given in recognition of the research promise demonstrated by individual postdoctoral scholars. Sophie Maiocchi is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the lab of Dr. Edward Bahnson.
August 18, 2022
Sarah Cohen, PhD, and Mohanish Deshmukh, PhD, researchers in the UNC Department of Cell Biology and Physiology and the UNC Neuroscience Center, were featured scientists in a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative article on an innovative new resource helping scientists probe the genetics of neurodegenerative diseases. Click here for article.
