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Virginia Miller, PhD Awarded R01 Grant from NIAID

July 16, 2020
Dr. Virginia Miller (Professor, Dept. of Genetics and Microbiology & Immunology) has been awarded an R01 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) for her project titled “Understanding hypermucoviscosity in Klebsiella”.

Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, PhD Awarded Research Service Agreement from Neogen Corporation

July 14, 2020
Dr. Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena (Professor and Chair, Genetics) was awarded a Research Service Agreement for the Systems Genetics group to provide exclusive data analysis services for the miniMUGA inbred mouse Background Analysis Report for Neogen.

Hyejung Won, PhD Awarded R21 Grant from NIDA

July 14, 2020
Dr. Hyejung Won (Assistant Professor, Genetics) was awarded an R21 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for her project titled “Using H-MAGMA to decipher neurological bases of smoking and alcohol use traits”.

Department of Genetics Publications for June 28 – July 11, 2020

July 13, 2020
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published five papers during June 28 – July 11, 2020.

Dominic Ciavatta, PhD Recognized for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring

July 8, 2020
Dr. Ciavatta (Associate Professor, Genetics) was recognized by the UNC Kidney Center with the Maestro Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring.

Jesse Raab, PhD Awarded Grant from Department of Defense (DOD)

July 7, 2020
Dr. Raab (Assistant Professor, Genetics) was awarded a grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) for his project titled “Identification of New Therapeutic Strategies for Targeting Liver Fibrosis”. 

Ageliki Tsagaratou, PhD and Dan Schrider, PhD Awarded MIRA (R35) Grants from NIGMS

July 7, 2020
Ageliki Tsagaratou, PhD (Assistant Professor, Genetics) and Dan Schrider, PhD (Assistant Professor, Genetics) Awarded five year MIRA (R35) Grants from National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).

Department of Genetics Publications for June 14-27, 2020

June 29, 2020
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published nine papers during June 14-27, 2020.

Sullivan, Heise and Tarantino Awarded New Grants

June 23, 2020
Drs. Pat Sullivan, Mark Heise and Lisa Tarantino received notices of new awards in June 2020.

TCGA Recognized with AACR 2020 Team Science Awards

June 22, 2020
The founding members and current project team of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project were recognized by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and will be honored during the virtual AACR meeting to be held Jun 22-24.