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Dr. Parul Johri Named Early-Career Excellence Award Winner by SMBE

June 24, 2024
Parul Johri, PhD (Assistant Professor, Biology and Genetics) won the 2024 Early-Career Excellence Award from the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.

UNC Genetics, Pharmacology, BCB, and GMB Team Up With the UNC Office of Rural Initiatives for “Camp Med”

June 23, 2024
The UNC Department of Genetics joined together with the Department of Pharmacology, the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB), the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB), and the UNC Office of Rural Initiatives to participate in a day of community outreach with “Camp Med”.

Research at its core

June 21, 2024
UNC Research Core Facilities are shared services that enhance and expand the collaborative capabilities of Carolina’s research enterprise.

Pioneering studies show promise in sequencing a baby’s genome at birth

June 21, 2024
This article originally appeared in the Washington Post and Yahoo News.

Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data (CLAD) Grant Transferred to UNC Department of Genetics

June 18, 2024
The NIH Office of the Director-funded grant “Iron-CLAD: securely advancing All of Us participant characterization with proven platforms and collaborations” (Dr. Melissa Haendel, PI) has been transferred to UNC Genetics.

Mieczkowski Awarded NCBC-IIG Equipment Grant

June 18, 2024
Dr. Piotr Mieczkowski (Professor, Genetics) was awarded an equipment grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC) for his proposal titled “Enhancing the High Throughput Sequencing Facility at UNC: Upgrading from Fluent 1080 to Tecan DreamPrep NGS Workstation for Improved Capability”.

NIH All of Us Research Program Seeks Input on Next Phase of Data Linkages Curated through CLAD

June 6, 2024
The Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data (CLAD), led by Dr. Melissa Haendel (Distinguished Professor, Genetics) “expands the types and research utility of program data available to researchers through passive data streams.” 

Dr. Laura Raffield Receives New U01 Grant from the National Institute on Aging

June 3, 2024
Laura Raffield, PhD (Assistant Professor, Genetics) has been awarded a new U01 grant from NIA for her project titled “Proteomic biomarkers of incident cognitive impairment in Black and White adults”.

Dr. Jim Crowley Receives New R13 Conference Grant from NIMH

June 3, 2024
Jim Crowley, PhD (Professor, Genetics) was awarded an R13 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to fund student, postdoc, and junior faculty attendance to the Annual Latin American Congress on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. 

Dr. Erin Heinzen Receives New Grant from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

June 3, 2024
Erin Heinzen, PharmD, PhD (Associate Professor, Pharmacy and Genetics) was awarded a new R21 grant from NINDS for her project titled “Genotype-informed single-cell transcriptomic profiling of mosaic brain tissue”.