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.

Mauro Calabrese, PhD, Nilu Goonetilleke, PhD, and Adam Hantman, PhD, were selected as Yang Family Biomedical Scholars in the sixth installment of this annual School of Medicine award. Click here for article.

Restoring lost gene activity prevents many disease signs in an animal model of the rare, single-gene neurodevelopmental condition. The UNC Neuroscience Center lab of Ben Philpot, PhD, led this research. Article: https://elifesciences.org/articles/72290 UNC press release: https://news.unchealthcare.org/2022/05/gene-therapy-could-treat-pitt-hopkins-syndrome-proof-of-concept-study-suggests/

Since middle school, Michelle Itano has been mesmerized by the power of microscopes. These seemingly familiar pieces of technology can do so much more than simply capture images of small things. They can unveil a world beyond our imagination — one Itano strives to show as many people as possible. ...

NIH rankings were recently released and the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology has taken a commanding FIRST PLACE national ranking! Achieving a #1 ranking in a hyper-competitive discipline is definitely a team effort.  In basketball, we focus on celebrating the players and coaching staff.  But strong programs are bolstered...

Congratulations to the Bahnson Lab,  for publishing a paper, titled “ Antioxidant Response Activating nanoParticles (ARAPas) localize to atherosclerotic plaque and locally activate the Nrf2 pathway.” In this work lead by postdoctoral fellow Sophie Maiocchi, PhD they describe the synthesis and characterization of novel nanoparticles termed Antioxidant Response Activating nanoParticles...

Dr. Sophie Maiocchi, postdoctoral fellow in the Bahnson Research Groups has been awarded a NIH Path to Independence Award (K99/R00) by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute for her project entitled: “Targeted drug delivery for the treatment of cardiovascular disease and its clinical complications.” Congratulations Dr. Maiocchi!

Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced awards of $1,320,000 to nine interdisciplinary teams in the final year of Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell, an initiative launched in 2018 to spark collaborative research that could advance fundamental understanding of chemical machinery and reactions...

Led by Ben Philpot, PhD, and Matt Judson, PhD, the new therapy was generally well-tolerated and prevented key signs of the condition in animal models.  Click here for article.