April 24, 2019
Dr. Carol Otey was awarded Instructor of the Year, selected by the first-year students in the PharmD doctoral program. The award was presented by class Vice-President, Kendrick Cobb (pictured with Carol Otey).
March 19, 2019
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will support the innovative imaging work of Michelle Itano, PhD, director of the UNC Neuroscience Microscopy Core facility for five years thanks to a grant totaling nearly $800,000. Click here for article.
February 26, 2019
The American Diabetes Association selected Damaris Lorenzo, PhD, as a winner of its Junior Faculty Development Award, which carries with it funding for further research on diabetes-related investigations. Click here for article.
February 22, 2019
Doctors could use Crispr tool to inject benign virus into foetus’s brain to ‘switch on’ key genes. Click here for article.
February 22, 2019
The Caron Lab had a high-profile paper published in the January 4th issue of Circulation Research, along with a commentary Editorial. Click here for article.
January 28, 2019
This National Award is based on Dr. Snider’s prestigious publications and future impact to the field as a New Investigator. She will accept the award at the 2019 Experimental Biology Meeting in April.
January 17, 2019
On Tuesday, the Office of Graduate Education (OGE) and Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development recognized 10 faculty members at UNC-Chapel Hill for the inaugural Excellence in Basic Science Mentoring award. The celebration was part of a larger cultural movement in the biomedical sciences to prioritize mentoring and diversify the scientific enterprise. continue
November 20, 2018
The UNC School of Medicine lab of Ben Philpot, PhD, discovered key details for how a deficiency in the gene UBE3A affects the brain and how replacing it could benefit children with the neuro-genetic disorder.
November 9, 2018
Vicki Bartsch, CBP Graduate Student in the Mark Zylka lab, successfully defended her dissertation titled “Characterization of diacylglycerol kinases eta and iota in itch, pain, and psychopathological behavior in mice.” CONGRATULATIONS, Dr. Bartsch!
November 7, 2018
Dan Summers Ph.D. joined the department in 2005 performing his dissertation research in the lab of Doug Cyr Ph.D. He investigated protein quality pathways responsible for identifying misfolded or aggregated proteins, a process that is often debilitated in neurodegeneration.
