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Hyejung Won Awarded New Seed Grant from the ALS Association

March 20, 2025
Dr. Hyejung Won (Associate Professor, Genetics) was awarded a seed grant from the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association for her project titled “Deciphering higher-order chromatin mechanisms for C9orf72-mediated ALS”.

Chuck Perou Awarded New DoD Grant

March 20, 2025
Dr. Chuck Perou (Distinguished Professor, Genetics and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) received a new grant from the Department of Defense for his project titled “The Breast Cancer Cellular Atlas”.

Alexander Rubinsteyn Receives New Grant from Jaime Leandro Foundation

March 20, 2025
Dr. Alex Rubinsteyn (Associate Professor, Genetics) was awarded a new grant from the Jaime Leandro Foundation for his project titled “Optimization of personalized cancer immunotherapeutic approaches”. 

Michael Love Awarded R01 Renewal from NHGRI

March 20, 2025
Dr. Michael Love (Associate Professor, Genetics and Biostatistics) had a successful competitive renewal of his R01 grant titled “A modular framework for accurate, interpretable, and reproducible analysis of long read RNA-seq data” from NHGRI.

Highlighted Faculty: Christoph Rau, PhD, Assistant Professor

February 21, 2025
The Department of Genetics is proud to highlight Dr. Christoph Rau for his excellence in research, mentorship, and service.

Julianne O’Daniel Promoted to Clinical Professor

February 18, 2025
Ms. Julianne O’Daniel, MS, CGC, has been promoted to Clinical Professor in the Department of Genetics, effective January 1, 2025.

Adriana Beltran Receives UNC ELEVATE Award

February 11, 2025
Dr. Adriana Beltran, PhD (Associate Professor, Genetics) has received an ELEVATE Fixed-Term Faculty Development Award from the Committee on Faculty Leaves and Awards, UNC Provost Office.

MicroRNA Responsible for Sex Differences in Cardiac Physiology, Disease

February 6, 2025
Researchers in the laboratories of Frank L. Conlon, PhD, Professor of Biology and Genetics, and Bill Marzluff, PhD, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, have pinpointed small molecules that greatly affect differences in heart health in men and women. These results uncover one of the molecular reasons behind sex...

Eight Psychiatric Disorders Share the Same Genetic Causes, Study Says

January 23, 2025
Building off previous groundbreaking research, a new study identifies specific genetic variants that have significant impacts on brain development and are shared across eight different psychiatric disorders. Targeting these variants could pave the way for treatments that address multiple conditions at once.

Ahmed Lab Publishes in Aging Cell

January 17, 2025
The laboratory of Dr. Shawn Ahmed (Professor, Genetics and Biology) has published a paper in the 09 November 2024 issue of Aging Cell.