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Understanding the role of gut messenger cells in gastrointestinal disease

February 4, 2025
The UNC Provost’s Office awarded Health McCauley a Junior Faculty Development Award to create a new humanized mouse model that more closely replicates complex epithelial and immune cell dynamics in the gut.  Lining the intestines are rare hormone-producing cells called enteroendocrine cells that sense nutrients, gut microbes, and metabolites in...

In the Loop: Year in Review – December 2024 Newsletter

December 31, 2024
2024 was a productive year for researchers in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology. In this In the Loop: Year in Review newsletter, explore their scientific discoveries, uncover upcoming opportunities for collaboration and learning, and gain insights into the faculty and students that power the department’s culture and scientific...

Researchers create gene therapy with potential to treat peripheral pain conditions

December 17, 2024
Using technology first designed by Bryan L. Roth, MD, PhD, the Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology, researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have engineered a molecular technology that can turn off pain receptors. Pain is meant to be a defense mechanism. It creates a strong sensation to get...

Congratulations to the 2024 CBP Departmental Award Winners!

December 16, 2024
The Department of Cell Biology and Physiology held its annual holiday party on December 11th. Students, faculty, and staff from the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology gathered on December 11th to show appreciation for each other and celebrate another successful year of research and collaboration. The event included an...

Paving a path in cancer research for CBP graduate students

December 5, 2024
CBP graduate student, Kimberly Lukasik, received a National Cancer Institute F99/K00 predoctoral to postdoctoral fellow transition award. Kimberly Lukasik, a graduate student in Stephanie Gupton’s laboratory is the first student from the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology to win a F99/K00 award from the National Cancer Institute. The award...

Programming a bioinformatic housekeeping helper

December 5, 2024
Danica Dy stepped out of her comfort zone to build new bioinformatic tools in the biopharmaceutical industry. This summer Danica Dy made a bold but strategic move to enhance her skillset and prepare for her future career. She completed a bioinformatics internship focused on cancer research with IQVIA. Dy, a...

A new way to look at organelle activity using machine learning

December 3, 2024
Sarah Cohen and her collaborators received a 2024 Allen Distinguished Investigator Award to develop a game-changing microscopy tool for visualizing multiple organelles in live cells. Cells are anything but stagnant. From wound healing to metastasis, diverse cell types shuttle around the body to complete vastly different tasks. What few people...

The start of a new collaboration to share in the culture of science

November 26, 2024
CBP students and faculty participate in the first of several planned events that span from 2024 to 2025 with Wake Tech Community College to foster scientific collaboration and community. Students and faculty from the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology (CBP) kicked off an exciting new partnership with Wake Tech...

Carl W. Gottschalk: a collector and innovator

November 25, 2024
A tour of Carl W. Gottschalk’s collection of historical books reveals the breadth of renal physiology’s history and Gottschalk’s place as a pioneer in the field. As a child, Carl W. Gottschalk loved collecting. He collected stamps, coins, and most notably butterflies. At just 15 years old, he discovered a...

The black hole deep inside the liver

November 12, 2024
An image from Berfin Azizoglu’s team showing the vascular organization underlying blood drainage from the liver wins the School of Medicine’s 2024 Art in Science Competition! A snapshot of this image’s research significance What does this image show? This image shows the three-dimensional vascular organization of the adult mouse liver. The...