February 11, 2014
P. Kay Lund, PhD, is named the 2015 Davenport Awardee. The Horace W. Davenport Distinguished Lectureship is the most prestigious recognition offered by the Gastrointestinal & Liver Section of the American Physiological Society.
February 3, 2014
January 2014 – Congratulations to Professor Ben Philpot, PhD, for receiving a new R01 entitled “Role of UBE3A in the Central Nervous System.”
January 21, 2014
Assistant Professor Stephanie Gupton, PhD, receives R01 funding from the National Institutes of Health - National Institute of General Medical Sciences for her project "TRIM9 coordinates membrane trafficking and cytoskeletal dynamics."
January 18, 2014
Five faculty members awarded Translational Team Science funding from the School of Medicine.
November 7, 2013
November 2013 – Drs. Ben Philpot, Courtney Thaxton, and Mark Zylka have been awarded $50,000 to study Pitt Hopkins mouse models. Pitt Hopkins Syndrome (PTHS) is a rare genetic disorder affecting a specific gene in chromosome 18, called TCF4. PTHS is characterized by intellectual disability and developmental delay which range from moderate to severe, possible …
September 19, 2013
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine is one of 14 Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science created by FDA, NIH. Research from new program to inform potential tobacco regulatory activities.
September 16, 2013
Graduate student Dan Kechele is awarded National Research Service Award from the National Cancer Institute.
September 12, 2013
Kathleen Caron, PhD, is associate professor of cell biology and physiology and genetics. Her research focuses on vascular biology and modeling human diseases in mice. She has served as assistant dean for research for the School of Medicine since 2010.
August 22, 2013
August 2013 - The Ruth and Phillip Hettleman Prize recognizes the achievements of outstanding junior tenure-track faculty or recently tenured faculty.
August 19, 2013
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (formerly known as NARSAD, or the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression) awards $11.8 million in 200 new two-year grants for young researchers in brain and behavior science.
