CONGRATULATIONS to Drs. Natasha Snider and Scott Randell on their successful promotions!  Dr. Snider promoted to Associate Professor and Dr. Randell to Professor. These are incredible milestones for Natasha and Scott’s careers.  These promotions reflect and acknowledge the highest level of achievements and contributions that they have made to our unit, our University and the … Read more

Graham Diering’s poster, from the virtual SFN, was covered in Spectrum, an online advocacy magazine for the autism community. Click here to read article.

Greg Scherrer, PhD, associate professor in the UNC Department of Cell biology and Physiology and member of the UNC Neuroscience Center, will use the three-year, $300,000 grant to study the neural basis of pain. Click here for article.

Each year the Office of Graduate Education recognizes faculty mentors affiliated with the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program (BBSP) who embody innovative and student-centered training, and an excellence in mentoring graduate students. These faculty members are honored for their work through the Awards for Excellence in Basic Science Mentoring. Click here to read article.

The past few months have shown how difficult—and how important—it is to be able to understand how a disease really works. Scientists and researchers at the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic are rapidly learning everything they can about the novel coronavirus: how it functions, how different cells in the body react to it, and why those … Read more

SFARI’s (Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative) mission is to improve the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders by funding innovative research of the highest quality and relevance. The grant awarded will support research that investigates genetic and epigenetic mechanisms, neural circuits changes and the development of genetic therapies in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). … Read more

The National Institute of Aging (NIA) has selected graduate student Rachel Battaglia as a recipient of the very competitive Transition to Aging Research Award for Predoctoral Students (F99/K00). The NIA selects only 7-10 award recipients each year.  Click here to read Vital Signs article.

Dr. Lori O’Brien works toward kidney disease cure through Nephron Progenitor studies.  Click here to hear podcast.

Drs. Sarah Cohen & Mohanish Deshmukh will use multicolor live-cell imaging to understand how stem cells reorganize as they differentiate into neurons and glia. Their long term goals are to determine whether defects in organelle dynamics are a fundamental feature of neurodegenerative disease. This project combines Dr. Cohen’s expertise in microscopy and organelle dynamics with … Read more

Please join us in congratulating, Hernán Mendez (Kathleen Caron Lab), for being selected as a 2020 HHMI Gilliam Fellow. The goal of this graduate fellowship program is to increase the diversity among scientists who are prepared to assume leadership roles in science, particularly as college and university faculty. The program provides awards to pairs of … Read more