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

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”. 

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...

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

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

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”. 

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”.

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.