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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Neurons are among the few cells that can halt cell death and recover from apoptosis. Now scientists know why. “Neurons can reverse their decision to die from a point that’s considered impossible in most other cells,” said Mohanish Deshmukh, a neuroscientist in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology. In...

Sleep disturbances during early development alter key synaptic proteins involved in autism spectrum disorder. Anyone who has ever put a toddler to bed knows it’s a struggle. While sleep might be the bane of a toddler’s existence it is also an essential component for their brain development. Toddlers need an...

A team of researchers led by Kathleen Caron investigating new therapeutic approaches for treating debilitating migraines in women is the first in the School of Medicine to receive a prestigious Sprint for Women’s Health Award. The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Sprint for Women’s Health award funds research...

A stunning image from Lori O’Brien‘s team showing a rare congenital defect that causes a kidney to have two ureters 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 a postnatal mouse kidney immunostained...