{"id":6115,"date":"2025-08-21T21:38:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/?p=6115"},"modified":"2025-08-21T21:54:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:54:39","slug":"core-director-adriana-beltran-receives-mid-career-faculty-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/core-director-adriana-beltran-receives-mid-career-faculty-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Core Director Adriana Beltran Receives Mid-Career Faculty Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6116\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 149px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2025\/08\/Adriana-Beltran-CR2-250x332-1.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"185\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Dr. Adriana Beltran, Associate Professor of Genetics and Director of the Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Core<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Department of Genetics has established a non-endowed program fund in the UNC Health Foundation \u2013 the Chair\u2019s Mid-Career Genetics Faculty Research Fund. \u00a0Funds were provided by a donor based on their belief that cutting-edge fundamental research relies on the creativity and ingenuity of scientists and their willingness to challenge long-held assumptions. \u00a0The fund is intended to provide outstanding mid-career scientists with the freedom to continue to challenge dogma and engage in transformative research. \u00a0The fund provides a three-year award for an Associate Professor. \u00a0Dr. Adriana Beltran (Associate Professor and Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/humancellcore\/\">Human Pluripotent Cell Core<\/a>) is the first recipient of this new award.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Beltran intends to utilize these funds to advance high-risk, high-reward projects focused on developing novel physiological models, functional assays, and analytical pipelines. \u00a0Using novel systems, including patient-specific neuronal models of epilepsy, hepatocyte-neuron integrated systems to study the brain-liver axis, and estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer organoid models, Beltran proposes to redefine how we study disease by using physiologically relevant cellular systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Genetics has established a non-endowed program fund in the UNC Health Foundation \u2013 the Chair\u2019s Mid-Career Genetics Faculty Research Fund. \u00a0Funds were provided by a donor based on their belief that cutting-edge fundamental research relies on the creativity and ingenuity of scientists and their willingness to challenge long-held assumptions. \u00a0The fund is &hellip; 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