Category: News

$40 million from the OpenAI Foundation, the non-profit parent organization that governs the for-profit company OpenAI Group PBC, to generate data that could make personalized cancer vaccines more effective…. Read More

UNC Researchers Receive $2.6 Million Grant to Study Therapies for Rare Platelet Disorders…Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received a four-year, approximately $2.6 million NIH R01 grant to study current therapies for bleeding in people with platelet disorders, including Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia (GT), a rare disorder...

Katherine A. Hoadley, PhD, a cancer genomics researcher at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, helped analyze data and plan and oversee a large international study that created one of the largest collections of cancer models grown from patient tumors…. Read More

The Rau Lab, In Collaboration With Brian Colwell Jensen, M.D., Publishes In Genetics….. Read More

Congratulations Dr. Katherine Hoadley (Associate Professor, Genetics), who received a new award from the Department of Defense for her project titled “Mapping histologic and molecular divergence in breast cancer metastasis”…..Read more 

If you’re interested in presenting at our CompMed Research-in-Progress meetings from September through December 2026, we’d love to have you. Please add your name to the Google Sheet linked below. Meetings are held on the first, second, and third Fridays of each month from 10:00–11:00 AM in the Mary Ellen...

The Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 University Distinguished Professorships. These honors represent some of the highest recognitions our University can bestow, awarded to faculty whose scholarly achievements, teaching excellence, and service to the Carolina community exemplify the highest...

Dr. Elizabeth Brunk was awarded the 2025 PhRMA Foundation Faculty Starter Grant in Drug Discovery! Dr. Brunk leads a systems genomics lab that integrates single-cell technologies and artificial intelligence to study how cancer cells rapidly adapt their DNA. Her groundbreaking research focuses on identifying and targeting these genetic adaptations to...

Dr. Elizabeth Brunk got some nice press for the development of CytoCellDB, a new database designed to fill a crucial gap in cancer research by focusing on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA). Published in Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) Cancer, the database identifies which cancer cell lines contain ecDNA, which is associated with cancer...

Gaussian Accelerated Molecular Dynamics (GaMD) Workshop on Oct 28, 2024, at UNC-Chapel Hill We are pleased to announce the Gaussian accelerated Molecular Dynamics (GaMD) workshop that will be held on Monday, Oct 28, 2024, at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill. The workshop is supported by the UNC Department of Pharmacology and Computational Medicine...