On March 24, the department hosted a group of eight students who participate in the WTCC STEM Academic and Research Training (START) Program. 

Keriayn Smith, PhD, receives $665,786 over the course of four years to research non-coding RNA in yeast, mammalian cells, and more.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 8 papers during March 12th – 25th, 2023. Schizophrenia risk conferred by rare protein-truncating variants is conserved across diverse human populations.  Liu D, Meyer D, Fennessy B, Feng C, Cheng E, Johnson JS, Park YJ, Rieder MK, Ascolillo S, de Pins A, Dobbyn A, Lebovitch D, Moya … Read more

On March 2, more than 50 faculty members from the Department of Genetics gathered at the North Carolina Botanical Gardens for an all-day strategic planning retreat. 

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 12 papers during February 26th – March 11th, 2023.

Jeremy Purvis, PhD (Associate Professor, Genetics and Computational Medicine) has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for his project titled “Toward a revised model of the cell cycle that captures reversible and irreversible arrest”.

The Office of Graduate Education has recognized three Genetics faculty members with Mentoring Awards. 

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 9 papers during February 12th – 25th, 2023.

All six basic science departments rank in the top 10 in National Institutes of Health funding for federal fiscal year 2022, according to a new report by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, and 11 clinical departments rank in the top 30. The UNC Department of Genetics is ranked first among peer public schools of medicine.

Christoph Rau, PhD (Assistant Professor, Genetics) has been awarded a new R01 grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Program for his application titled “Elucidating the Role of Multinuclearity in Healthy and Diseased Mammalian Cardiomyocytes”.