The HEAL Director’s Award for Excellence in Research recognizes HEAL-funded investigators who exemplify research excellence, support broad dissemination of key research, and demonstrate leadership in the scientific community. The 2023 awardees’ development of experimental practices, models, and approaches have had a major, transformative impact on the pain and addiction research fields.
Jimena Giudice has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project entitled, “Mechanotransduction, transcription, and alternative splicing in cell biology” has been awarded for five years. CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty … Read more
The Brennwald Lab have a new paper in the Journal of Cell Biology in collaboration with Rick Baker in the Biochemistry Department at UNC. This was the work of a talented postdoc in the lab (now an Assistant Professor at Hofstra University) Brittany Miller and Guendalina Rossi (Assistant Professor) as co lead authors who utilized … Read more
Michelle Itano, PhD Receives CZI Grant to Help Train the Next Generation of Imaging Scientists. Click here to read more.
Eppin Pharma has partnered with the nonprofit Male Contraceptive Initiative (MCI), which has provided the company a program related investment of up to $800,000. Read full article featured on WRAL TechWire.
Memories from Diering’s life trace the rising star’s scientific path from raising lizards as a child and later exploring home brewing to heading a lab that investigates memory, sleep disturbances and early development in animals with autism-linked mutations. Asleep in the Mouse House with Graham Diering | Spectrum | Autism Research News
Join us in sending a HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Stephanie Gupton!! She has been promoted to Full Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, effective October 1, 2022.
The PARE Awards are given in recognition of the research promise demonstrated by individual postdoctoral scholars. Sophie Maiocchi is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the lab of Dr. Edward Bahnson.
Sarah Cohen, PhD, and Mohanish Deshmukh, PhD, researchers in the UNC Department of Cell Biology and Physiology and the UNC Neuroscience Center, were featured scientists in a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative article on an innovative new resource helping scientists probe the genetics of neurodegenerative diseases. Click here for article.
The Giudice Lab published a paper entitled “Alternative splicing regulation of membrane trafficking genes during myogenesis” in the Journal RNA. The co-first authors Emma Hinkle and Hannah Wiedner (GMB graduate students) were invited for a “Meet the First Authors” editorial feature.
