News

The Department is delighted to welcome Malini Bommiasamy, PhD, as a Research Project Manager.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 11 papers during August 13th - 26th 2023.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 9 papers during July 30th - August 12th 2023.

UNC School of Medicine graduate students Oscar Arroyo from Daniel McKay’s lab and Aleah Bailey from Ilona Jasper’s lab, were among 50 students across the United States named as Gilliam Fellows by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 8 papers during July 16th - 29th 2023.

The UNC Clinical Genomic Analysis (GENYSIS) Core is a research service that collaborates with the BioSpecimen Processing (BSP) facility, the High-Throughput Sequencing Facility (HTSF), and the McLendon Molecular Genetics Laboratory (MGL) to provide clinical researchers with four main services.

UNC School of Medicine researchers Christopher Sayed, MD, Yun Li, PhD (Genetics), and Karen Mohlke, PhD (Genetics), discovered the genomic locations that contribute to the genetic risk of a chronic skin condition.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 10 papers during July 2nd - 15th 2023.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 14 papers during June 18th - July 1st 2023.

Erin Heinzen, PharmD, PhD, was awarded a renewal of her R01 grant titled “Identification and molecular characterization of somatic mutations in MCD” from NINDS.