The mission of the March of Dimes Foundation is to prevent birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. The Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Awards support junior scientists just embarking on their independent research careers. This award ($150,000) will provide Jimena Giudice and her lab team with funding for two...

UNC School of Medicine scientists led by Robert Tarran created a new screening technique to deduce the different toxicity levels of the more than 7,700 types of e-liquid flavors available to consumers.

CBP Graduate Student, Carlos Patino Descovich (Scott Williams Lab), was inducted into the Frank Porter Graham Honor Society for 2018. The Honor Society is an elite group of faculty and graduate students who are recognized for their service to the community. Congratulations Carlos!

The winner of the 2017 JCS Prize is Seth Zimmerman for his paper entitled ‘Cells lay their own tracks – optogenetic Cdc42 activation stimulates fibronectin deposition supporting directed migration’ (Zimmerman et al., 2017).

UNC SOM lands 16 departments in top 25 for NIH funding! The Department of Cell Biology and Physiology is the highest ranked at 2nd overall and holding the highest ranking amongst all departments in the SOM!! Thanks to EVERYONE for an amazing accomplishment!!

The Hooker Imaging Core (HIC) is an open core providing a broad range of light microscopy techniques, analyses and consultation for UNC researchers. The core is located in Taylor Hall near Lineberger and the MBRB and includes several confocal and widefield microscopes in addition to systems for high content screening...

The Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology acknowledges the increasingly active and important role of neurobiology in advancing our understanding of the functioning of the brain and the nervous system -- a quest that seems destined for dramatic expansion in the coming decades. This international prize, established in 2002, encourages...

CONGRATULATIONS to Kelly Orgel for successfully defending her dissertation entitled “Advances in treatments and animal models of peanut allergy”.

A study led by UNC Lineberger's Keith Burridge, PhD, and published in the Journal of Cell Biology, examined the role of the physical structure of the nucleus in cell movement through different surfaces.

CONGRATULATIONS to David Graham for successfully defending his dissertation entitled “Enucleated cells reveal differential roles of the nucleaus in cell migration, polarity and mechanotransduction.”