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A new study in the lab of Jason Stein, PhD, modeled brain development in a dish to identify cells and genes that influence infant brain growth, a trait associated with autism.

Jenny Ting, PhD, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor in Genetics has been announced as the recipient of American Association of Immunologists’ Lifetime Achievement Award. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ting on achieving this tremendous distinction!

The Program for Precision Medicine reflects on achievements across research, education and patient care missions since its launch 2019 in this comprehensive report.

Dr. Chris Gregory (Professor, Department of Genetics and Director, Office of Research Technologies) and Kara Clissold (Associate Director, Office of Research Technologies) published a paper titled “Incentivizing collaboration with core facilities: Developing an impactful core facility voucher program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine” (JBT...

Dr. Marty Ferris has been promoted to Professor, effective December 1, 2025.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 29 papers in November 2025.

Rachel Szymanski, a PhD in the Conlon Lab, has received a prestigious American Heart Association fellowship to investigate the role of the CRL4 ubiquitin-ligase complex in embryonic heart development.

Terry Furey, Professor of Genetics & Biology, was recently highlighted in the article “Graduate with ‘orphan diseases’ transformed by quantitative genomics” in UNC’s “The Well” publication. Original article appears HERE. Graduate with ‘orphan diseases’ transformed by quantitative genomics With help from family and friends and University accommodations, Daniel Meng-Saccoccio is ready...

Abdalla Alkhawaja (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student in the labs of Karen Mohlke and Terry Furey, UNC Genetics) and Dr. Kevin Currin are co-first authors on a newly published manuscript in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

29 Carolina faculty named ‘highly cited researchers’ including Dr. Jenny Ting, Distinguished Professor of Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology.