Goldstein Promoted to Associate Professor July 7, 2025 Dr. Jennifer Goldstein has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics, effective July 1, 2025.
Melissa Haendel (Professor of Genetics; School of Data Science and Society) Appears on “The Genetics Podcast” July 3, 2025 Dr. Melissa Haendel (Professor of Genetics; School of Data Science and Society) participated in a July 2025 episode of "The Genetics Podcast" with host Dr. Patrick Short.
UNC GeNe Families including BCB and GMB Graduate Students Celebrate Summer! June 30, 2025 UNC GeNe Families including Graduate Students from the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology celebrated the end of academic year 2024-2025 with a summer kick-off on the lawn of Genetic Medicine Building on the UNC campus on Tuesday, June 17. The event...
Liu Chosen for Leadership in Academic Medicine Program (LAMP) June 22, 2025 Dr. Qingyun Liu (Assistant Professor, Genetics) has been selected to participate in the 2025-2026 Leadership in Academic Medicine Program (LAMP).
Haendel Lab Publishes New Paper in JMIR Formative Research May 28, 2025 Dr. Eric Hurwitz, postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Melissa Haendel (Distinguished Professor, Genetics), is the first author on a new paper titled “Unlocking the potential of wear time of a wearable device to enhance postpartum depression screening and detection: cross-sectional study”, published in the journal JMIR Formative Research.
Lauryn Bailey joins UNC’s Postbaccalaureate Research Initiative in Science and Medicine (PRISM) program this summer May 15, 2025 Lauryn Bailey (Biology ’25) will join the first cohort of students in the UNC's newly created Postbaccalaureate Research Initiative in Science and Medicine (PRISM) program this summer.
UNC School of Medicine Names 2024-25 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars May 5, 2025 Gaorav Gupta, MD, PhD, Misty Good, MD, MS, and Jason Stein, PhD, were selected as Yang Family Biomedical Scholars in the eighth installment of this annual School of Medicine award.
O’Neal Awarded Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Research Grant April 29, 2025 Dr. Wanda O’Neal (Professor, Medicine and Genetics (secondary)) was awarded a new grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for her project titled “Hypoxia signaling: a therapeutic target for cystic fibrosis lung disease”.
Magnuson Renews MMRRC U42 Grant April 29, 2025 Dr. Terry Magnuson (Kay M. & Van L. Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor, Genetics and Vice Dean for Research and Strategy, School of Data Science and Society) is the Lead PI on the recently awarded competitive renewal of a U42 grant from the NIH Office of the Director titled “A Carolina...
Anne Thessen Publishes Exposomics Paper in Science April 25, 2025 Dr. Anne Thessen (Associate Professor, Genetics) was a co-author of a recently published Science paper titled “Integrating exosomes in biomedicine”.