June 2010 - McCormick's project "PECAM-1 regulation of eNOS activation" will be supported by a two-year fellowship.

June 2010 – Research instructor Silvia Goicoechea, PhD, will receive a University Cancer Research Fund (UCRF) Core Facility Pilot Project Grant. The title of the proposal is “Establishment of an in vivo model of metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma in mice to study the role of palladin in tumor growth.” Click here...

May 2010 – The Otey lab and collaborators have published a paper in the online journal PloS One describing their recent discovery of palladin’s role in pancreatic cancer and its potential as a molecular marker for early detection. Research instructor Silvia Goicoechea, PhD, is first author. Local television station WRAL...

May 2010 – Graduate program alumnus, Jason Clayton, MD, PhD, has matched to a pediatric residency at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Jason, his wife Kathleen and their four-month old son Ben will relocate to Boston in June. Kathleen will begin a postdoctoral position at MIT. Jason completed his PhD...

Yashiro Graduate program alumnus, Koji Yashiro, PhD, has accepted a position with Astellas Pharma Inc. Astellas is the second largest pharmaceutical company in Japan and ranks seventeenth in global pharmaceutical revenues. The research facility is located in the city of Tsukuba, the center for research in Japan. Koji will join...

February 2010 – Congratulations to Ben Philpot on his promotion to Associate Professor, effective February 1, 2010. Dr. Philpot earned his PhD in Psychology/Psychobiology from the University of Virginia, under the guidance of Dr. Peter Brunjes. Philpot went on to postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Mark Bear at...

Micro RNA Regulation of Human Airway Epithelial Phenotype Hammond, Randell and Hayes December 2009 – Airway epithelial cells respond to injury and are integral to the progression of lung disease. However, many basic mechanisms regulating their function remain poorly understood. There are few specific therapies for disease related phenotypic changes...

Why Certain Cancer Treatments Cause High Blood Pressure

Assistant professor Mark Zylka was awarded one of 42 NIH Roadmap Transformative R01 grants for his project Harnessing Ectonucleotidases to Treat Chronic Pain.

  September 2009 – Assistant professor Ben Philpot has been awarded a two-year grant from the Angelman Syndrome Foundation for his research proposal titled “Novel therapeutics for Angelman syndrome by manipulating Ube3a expression.” Funds have been allocated for support of these studies in collaboration with Dr. Bryan Roth. Additional funding...