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”.
Dr. Virginia Miller Named AAAS Fellow April 1, 2025 Virginia Miller, PhD (Professor, Genetics and Microbiology & Immunology, Retired) has been named a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the most distinguished honors in the scientific community.