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Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 14 papers during September 19th – October 2nd 2021.

Dr. Dale Cowley has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics, effective 9/1/21.

Jonathan Berg, MD, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, is a principal investigator of The Clinical Genome Resource, a multi-institution consortium initially launched in 2013 by the National Human Genome Research Institute to provide evidence-based evaluations of clinically relevant genes and variants.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 7 papers during September 5th – 18th 2021.

Jenny Ting, PhD (Distinguished Professor, Department of Genetics, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, LCCC) was awarded a R56 grant titled “Role and Mitigation of Inflammasomes and Inflammation During COVID-19” from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

Mirek Styblo (PhD, Professor, Department of Nutrition) and Bev Koller (PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Genetics) are Co-PIs on a new R01 titled “Humanized mouse models for arsenic toxicology” from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).

Hyejung Won (PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Neuroscience Center), Karen Mohlke (PhD, Professor, Department of Genetics), and Mike Love (PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Department of Genetics), were awarded a 5-year $9.25 million UM1 grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) titled “Systematic in vivo characterization...

A collaboration among Carolina clinicians and researchers is leading the way in how we think about tracking viral variants.

Drs. Terry Magnuson and Shawn Ahmed awarded equipment supplements from NIGMS

Jason Whitmire, PhD (Professor, Department of Genetics, Department of Microbiology & Immunology), was awarded a Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Investigator-Initiated Research Award by the US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity of the Department of Defense (DoD).