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Lauryn Bailey joins UNC’s Postbaccalaureate Research Initiative in Science and Medicine (PRISM) program this summer

May 15, 2025
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.

Department of Genetics Publications for March 30th – April 26th, 2025

May 9, 2025
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 25 papers during March 30th - April 26th 2025.

UNC School of Medicine Names 2024-25 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars

May 5, 2025
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.

O’Neal Awarded Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Research Grant

April 29, 2025
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”. 

Magnuson Renews MMRRC U42 Grant

April 29, 2025
Dr. Terry Magnuson (Kay M. & Van L. Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor, Genetics and Vice Dean for Research and Strategy, School of Data Science and Society) is the Lead PI on the recently awarded competitive renewal of a U42 grant from the NIH Office of the Director titled “A Carolina...

Anne Thessen Publishes Exposomics Paper in Science

April 25, 2025
Dr. Anne Thessen (Associate Professor, Genetics) was a co-author of a recently published Science paper titled “Integrating exosomes in biomedicine”. 

Department of Genetics Publications for March 2nd – 29th, 2025

April 20, 2025
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 30 papers during March 2nd - 29th 2025.

Searching for the genetic origins of a debilitating skin disease

April 11, 2025
Chris Sayed, a dermatologist at the UNC School of Medicine, has spent much of his career focused on what he calls "the worst and most common disease you've never heard of."

Dr. Yun Li and Team Publish New Model (endoPRS) in AJHG

April 8, 2025
Yun Li, PhD (Professor, Genetics) together with first author Elena Kharitonova (PhD Student, Biostatistics) have published a new paper in the American Journal of Human Genetics (AJHG) titled “EndoPRS: Incorporating endophenotype information to improve polygenic risk scores for clinical endpoints – a study in asthma”. 

Dr. Yun Li and Collaborators Publish Review in AJHG

April 4, 2025
Yun Li, PhD (Professor, Genetics and Biostatistics) is a co-corresponding author together with Quan Sun (Biostatistics doctoral candidate) on a new review paper published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, titled “Opportunities and challenges of local ancestry in genetic association analysis”.