Please welcome our newest graduate students, Vicki Brings and Bailey Zwarycz, who have joined the graduate program in cell and molecular physiology and will work with Mark Zylka and Scott Magness, respectively. In August, MD/PhD student Kelly Gewain will also join the department to work with Susan Henning and Chris...

May 2013 – Professor James Faber will receive R01 funding from the National Institutes of Health – National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for his project, “Targeting the pial collateral circulation for mitigation of cerebral ischemia.” This project will: 1) use congenic fine-mapping and other approaches to identify the...

Congratulations to Bonnie Taylor-Blake in Mark Zylka’s lab for her first place win in the recent Art of Science Competition with her image “Skin: Branching Out” (below). The Carolina Biosciences Alumni Reunion and Symposium sponsored the competition, a celebration of “the intersection of art and science,” open to all UNC...

May 2013 – Second-year graduate students Leigh Ann Samsa and Lin Xiao have each been awarded a travel grant provided to the McAllister Heart Institute by the Sabin Family Foundation. Leigh Ann recently joined the lab of Dr. Jiandong Liu and Lin is mentored by Dr. Drew Dudley. Both are...

  Dr. Anton April 2013 – Professor Eva Anton will take on a new role as Associate Director of the Neuroscience Center. He will spearhead a number of new initiatives soon including a review of facilities and space allocation and contributing to UNC’s response to the Brain Initiative.

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...

Michelle Itano formerly of the Jacobson Lab now has a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rockefeller University.

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 2012 - Congratulations to physiology graduate students Adam Gracz and Tricia Lenhart, 2013 recipients of UNC's Graduate Education Advancement Board (GEAB) Impact Award

November 2012 - Graduate student Lin Xiao is one of seven nominees from UNC for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Student Research Fellowship.