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Jamshaid Shahir (BCB Graduate Student) Receives Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program Award from Burroughs Wellcome Fund

October 25, 2021
Jamshaid Shahir is a graduate student in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) curriculum and member of the Jeremy Purvis laboratory, where he studies the dynamics of cell cycle progression under oncogenic KRAS mutations using experimental data and computational modeling.

Beltran awarded a Faculty Research Support Grant from the Department of Genetics

October 25, 2021
Adriana Beltran, PhD, Associate Professor of Genetics and Director of the Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Core, was awarded a Faculty Research Support Grant, formerly known as a PIVOT award, for $20,000 from the Department of Genetics, which was evenly matched by both the School of Medicine Office of Research, and...

UNC Genetics State Service Awards 2020-2021

October 22, 2021
The Department of Genetics is proud to announce the following employees both faculty and staff with their State Service Awards. 

Department of Genetics Publications October 3rd – 16th 2021

October 18, 2021
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 11 papers during October 3rd – 16th 2021.

Katie Hoadley, PhD Awarded New Grant as Part of Susan G. Komen Metastatic Breast Cancer Collaborative Research Initiative

October 14, 2021
Thanks to a $500,000 lead gift by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC), the Susan G. Komen and Blue Cross NC Metastatic Breast Cancer Disparities Collaborative Research Grant was awarded to a research team led by Jennifer Freedman, PhD, and Steven Patierno, PhD, of Duke...

Koller award R21 from NIAID

October 14, 2021
Bev Koller, PhD, Associate Professor of Genetics, was awarded a new R21 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) titled “Mouse models for study of the NLRP1 and CARD8 inflammasomes”.

University proclamation recognizes Indigenous Peoples’ Day

October 11, 2021
University leaders and the UNC American Indian Center issued a proclamation today recognizing the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

Department of Genetics Publications September 19th – October 2nd 2021

October 4, 2021
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 14 papers during September 19th – October 2nd 2021.

Dale Cowley, PhD Promoted to Associate Professor

September 29, 2021
Dr. Dale Cowley has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics, effective 9/1/21.

UNC Awarded $24-million NIH Grant to Improve Genomic, Precision Medicine

September 24, 2021
Jonathan Berg, MD, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, is a principal investigator of The Clinical Genome Resource, a multi-institution consortium initially launched in 2013 by the National Human Genome Research Institute to provide evidence-based evaluations of clinically relevant genes and variants.