Author Archives: Jonathon Cornett

UNC GeNe Families including graduate students from the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, and other Department of Genetics labs celebrated the end of academic year 2025-2026 with a summer kick-off on the lawn of Genetic Medicine Building on the UNC campus on...

The genetic tool allows doctors to better tailor treatments to each patient’s unique subtype of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Dr. Margarita Dzama-Karels (Postdoctoral Fellow, Raab laboratory) received the 2026 Joseph S. Pagano Award in recognition of her 2025 paper in Cell Reports "Menin-MLL1 complex cooperates with NF-Y to promote hepatocellular carcinoma survival”.

A team of scientists from the UNC-CH Department of Genetics and partnering institutions, led by Dr. Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena (Professor and Chair, UNC Genetics), published a policy article titled “Improve genetic quality control to increase rigor and reproducibility of mouse research” in the 14 May 2026 issue of Science....

Dr. Jonathan Berg (Bryson Distinguished Professor, Genetics and Medicine) and Dr. Melissa Haendel (Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor, Genetics) are the co-PIs of a new U01 grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for a project titled “Southeastern Genomic Medicine eConsult Network (SeGMeNt)”.

Dr. Lisa Tarantino (Professor, Genetics and Assistant Dean for Research, Eshelman School of Pharmacy) was awarded an R03 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for her project titled “Using unbiased whole-brain imaging to identify functional brain networks in genetically heterogeneous Collaborative Cross mouse strains with divergent responses to...

Dr. Karen Mohlke (Professor, Genetics) successfully renewed her R01 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) for her project titled “Targeted genetic analysis of T2D and quantitative traits”.

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

Dr. Jeremy Purvis successfully renewed his R01 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) for his project titled “Computational models of the human cell cycle to reveal disease mechanism and inform treatment”.

Dr. David Corcoran (Assistant Professor, Genetics) received an Innovation Impact Grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC) to purchase two state-of-the-art GPU compute nodes for the Lineberger Bioinformatics Core.