Category: News

In a new study, UNC School of Medicine’s Brian Conlon, PhD, Duke’s Josh Parsons, MD, PhD, and colleagues provide the best evidence to date for the significance of bacterial persister cells in the failure of antibiotics in the clinic. Read the full story here or here.

Marsico Lung Institute faculty, postdoc, student, and collaborator publications for December 2023 included papers appearing in Science Advances, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, and ACS Macro Letters. Check out the full list below: Einarsson GG, Sherrard LJ, Hatch JE, Zorn B, Johnston E, McGettigan C, O’Neill...

  Allison Williams, a Research Specialist in the MLI Tissue Procurement and Cell Culture Core, was awarded a UNC Core Staff Recognition in the category of Performance Excellence. Ms. Williams’ nominator spoke highly of her initiative within the core, highlighting her role in training new technicians while developing a new...

Marsico Lung Institute faculty, postdoc, student, and collaborator publications for November 2023 included papers appearing in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, The The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Check out the full list below: Asakura T, Okuda K, Chen G, Dang...

Congratulations to Wanda O’Neal, PhD, who has been approved for a secondary faculty appointment in the Department of Genetics! Dr. O’Neals Genetics Department profile (still under construction) can be viewed here.

Twenty UNC School of Medicine and 21 other UNC-Chapel Hill researchers have been named in Clarivate’s 2020 list of Highly Cited Researchers™, scientific pioneers from around the world whose names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the...

David Peden, MD, MS, has been named chief research officer of the UNC School of Medicine Clinical Research Alliance. He will begin his work in the role immediately. He also serves as interim director of the CRA. Read the full story here.

The Marsico Lung Institute (MLI) was well-represented at this year’s North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference in Phoenix, AZ. MLI researchers moderated several sessions, presented a number of posters, and served as speakers in various workshops, symposiums, and other sessions, including: Carla Ribeiro, PhD: “Cystic Fibrosis Airway Inflammation Enhances the Efficacy...

  Yu Mikami, MD, PhD, and Takanori Asakura, MD, PhD, received the Respiratory Research Award at the Tokyo Respiratory Research Conference. The Research Award was a competition among 13 medical schools in Tokyo. The judges, who were directors or professors of respiratory medicine from each university, were reportedly surprised to...

Marsico Lung Institute faculty, postdoc, student, and collaborator publications for October 2023 included papers appearing in Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Nature Chemistry, and Nature Microbiology. Check out the full list below: Casadevall A, Cotter PA, Enquist L, Donohue TJ, Bertuzzi S, Nguyen NK. An account of American Academy of Microbiology reforms...