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.

January 2014 – Congratulations to Professor Ben Philpot, PhD, for receiving a new R01 entitled “Role of UBE3A in the Central Nervous System.”

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."

Five faculty members awarded Translational Team Science funding from the School of Medicine.

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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...

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.

Graduate student Dan Kechele is awarded National Research Service Award from the National Cancer Institute.

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 2013 - The Ruth and Phillip Hettleman Prize recognizes the achievements of outstanding junior tenure-track faculty or recently tenured faculty.