July 2012 - Graduate student Sarah Wetzel will receive a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association to support her research in the Caron lab.

July 2012 - Sarah Street has been selected by the medical student body to give the 2012 Whitehead Lecture.

June 2012 - Undergraduate students join department labs for summer research experience

June 2012 - Graduate student Caitlin Collins will receive two years of funding from the American Heart Association for her research in the Tzima lab.

June 2012 - Assistant professor Drew Dudley and colleagues publish a study in the journal Angiogenesis

June 2012 - "Shot may top acupuncture for pain relief: Mouse study finds enzyme injection has lasting effects"

May 2012 - Graduate student Jim Dunleavey wins first place award for his poster in the Basic Science category at this year's UNC Lineberger Cancer Center Scientific Retreat.

June 2012 - The Fellner Fellowship Committee is pleased to award a second Fellner Fellowship for the upcoming academic year.

New research by Philpot lab researchers may have pinpointed an underlying cause of the seizures that affect 90 percent of people with Angelman syndrome (AS), a neurodevelopmental disorder.

Department faculty member Marianne Meeker, PhD, was recently elected as a Fellow to the 2012 UNC Academy of Educators