Author Archives: Jonathon Cornett

The Chair's Mid-Career Genetics Faculty Research Fund was established in the department of genetics as a non-endowed program fund in the UNC Health Foundation by a donor based on their belief that cutting-edge fundamental research relies on the creativity and ingenuity of scientists and their willingness to challenge long-held assumptions....

Hyejung Won (Associate Professor of Genetics) Awarded 2025 Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Award.

Dr. Jennifer Goldstein has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics, effective July 1, 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 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...

Dr. Qingyun Liu (Assistant Professor, Genetics) has been selected to participate in the 2025-2026 Leadership in Academic Medicine Program (LAMP). 

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 (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.

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.

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”.