August 22, 2013
Mark Zylka awarded 2013 Hettleman Prize
August 2013 - The Ruth and Phillip Hettleman Prize recognizes the achievements of outstanding junior tenure-track faculty or recently tenured faculty.
August 22, 2013
August 2013 - The Ruth and Phillip Hettleman Prize recognizes the achievements of outstanding junior tenure-track faculty or recently tenured faculty.
May 24, 2013
Congratulations to Bonnie Taylor-Blake in Mark Zylka’s lab for her first place win in the recent Art of Science Competition with her image “Skin: Branching Out” (below). The Carolina Biosciences Alumni Reunion and Symposium sponsored the competition, a celebration of “the intersection of art and science,” open to all UNC students, staff and faculty. The …
June 12, 2012
June 2012 - "Shot may top acupuncture for pain relief: Mouse study finds enzyme injection has lasting effects"
April 24, 2012
April 2012 - Zylka lab publication in the journal "Molecular Pain" outlines the pain relief potential of PAP injections.
December 21, 2011
December 2011 - Collaborators Ben Philpot, Mark Zylka and Bryan Roth identify compounds that cause the dormant Ube3a gene to be expressed.
December 20, 2011
December 2011 - Nate Sowa, an MD/PhD student who conducted his dissertation research in the lab of Mark Zylka, receives the 2011 Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award
December 8, 2011
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grants Philpot and Zylka an R01 to study drugs that regulate expression of the protein Ube3a.
July 5, 2011
The labs of Drs. Ben Philpot and Mark Zylka have collaborated on the paper “Angelman syndrome: insights into genomic imprinting and neurodevelopmental phenotypes,” which was selected as the cover article for the June 2011 issue of Trends in Neurosciences.
June 6, 2011
Dr. Ian King is the first recipient of the Dr. Joseph E. Wagstaff Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, a prestigious two-year fellowship award given for studies in preclinical, translational and clinical research areas that investigate all aspects of Angelman syndrome.
April 28, 2011
Dr. Mark Zylka’s review on pain-relieving prospects for adenosine and ectonucleotidases is featured as the cover article in the April 2011 issue of Trends in Molecular Medicine.