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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.

Dr. Rachel Lynch has been promoted to Associate Professor, effective December 1, 2025.

Dr. Erin Heinzen was promoted to Professor with tenure in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics and the Department of Genetics, effective November 14, 2025.

Dr. Samir Kelada has been promoted to Full Professor with tenure in the Department of Genetics, effective November 14, 2025.

The Indiana University School of Medicine has named Jenny Ting, PhD, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Genetics, the recipient of the 2026 Mark Brothers Award. This honor recognizes an internationally renowned scientist of Asian descent for exceptional contributions to biomedical or clinical science. Dr. Ting, who also served...

The Department of Genetics, the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB), and the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) held a scientific retreat on Saturday, November 15, 2025 at UNC's Friday Center in Chapel Hill, NC.

Dr. Xihao Li (Assistant Professor of Genetics & Biostatistics) and Yiyan Zhang (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student in the lab of Yun Li, UNC Genetics) are authors on a newly published manuscript titled “A scalable framework for identifying allelic series from summary statistics”.

UNC’s WinSPIRE organization was awarded the 2025 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Student STEM Enrichment Program grant.