April 16, 2013
April 2013 – Fourth-year graduate student Adam Gracz has been awarded at Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the UNC Graduate School for the 2013-2014 academic year. The fellowship supports doctoral students in the final year of their dissertations, providing a stipend, tuition and fees, and health insurance. Adam is a student in the cell and molecular …
January 25, 2013
Michelle Itano formerly of the Jacobson Lab now has a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rockefeller University.
January 10, 2013
October 2012 - Dr. Robert Lipinski and Dr. Kristen Pleil received two of the five $1,000 International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ISBRA) Presidents Awards at the annual meeting in Sapporo, Japan in September.
December 7, 2012
December 2012 - Congratulations to physiology graduate students Adam Gracz and Tricia Lenhart, 2013 recipients of UNC's Graduate Education Advancement Board (GEAB) Impact Award
December 1, 2012
November 2012 - Graduate student Lin Xiao is one of seven nominees from UNC for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Student Research Fellowship.
November 30, 2012
September 2012 – Dr. John Reader has been awarded a 4 year grant from the National Science Foundation, Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences. The project is entitled “Studies on Agrocin 84—a Trojan Horse tRNA synthetase inhibitor.” Additional details at: http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1158488
November 20, 2012
November 2012 - Professor James Faber received a new four-year R01 grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
October 30, 2012
October 22, 2012 - Drs. William Arendshorst and Robert Tarran have been awarded an NC TraCS $5K-$50K Pilot Grant
October 12, 2012
October 2012 - A new activity-dependent role for the protein heavily implicated in autism, Neuroligin-1, identified
September 15, 2012
September 2012 - Richard Weinberg receives new funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
