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Congratulations to Ana Cartaya, pharmacology graduate student in Edward Moreira Bahnson’s lab, for being awarded a “Young Investigator Award” at the 2019 SfRBM Annual Conference. Ana received her award, which includes a certificate, a cash prize, and free registration for either the 2020 or 2021 Annual Conference, at the Closing...

Congratulations to the lab of Jimena Giudice, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, for being recognized by Undergraduate Chancellor’s Science Scholar, Eduardo Torres, during UNC Research Week. Eduardo is a biology major doing epigenetics research in the Giudice lab. He states, “I’ve learned so much during my time in...

Congratulations to the lab of Paul Dayton, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Clinical Research, Breast Cancer, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, for having their work on oxygen microbubbles featured by H. Shelton Earp, III, MD, Lineberger Distinguished Professor & Director, UNC Cancer Care, during the UNC Lineberger State of the Program.

Congratulations to the lab of Jonathan Schisler, MS, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, for linking the specific biochemical changes to a protein called CHIP to specific disease characteristics of patients with a wide range of rare disorders. Dr. Schisler led research showing that limiting the activity of a mutant...

Congratulations to the lab of Kathleen M. Caron, Ph.D., Department Chair, Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, for publishing paper, entitled “RAMP3 Determines Rapid Recycling of Atypical Chemokine Receptor-3 for Guided Angiogenesis” in the journal PNAS. Dr. Caron’s lab expands their repertoire of GPCRs that interact with RAMPs and shows how...

Congratulations to Kathleen Caron, Ph.D., Department Chair, Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, Brooke Matson, Ph.D., UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Kelsey Quinn, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Physiology, for winning the Office of Research, School of Medicine, UNC-CH’s “Art In Science” Competition. Their submission, “Expecting a Special Delivery”, shows pinopodes...

Congratulations to Frank Conlon, Ph.D., Department Chair, Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, and former student, Lauren Waldren-Wasson, In Collaboration with William Pu, M.D. (Boston University/Harvard University), for publishing article, entitled “A reference map of murine cardiac transcription factor chromatin occupancy identifies dynamic and conserved enhancers” in the journal Nature Communications....

Congratulations to Li Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor, for the receipt of 2019 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars Award. The awards were established to recognize recently tenured faculty, such as Dr. Qian, that have already made significant scholarly contributions to their field and have begun to receive national recognition for their research....

Congratulations to Li Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Associate Director of McAllister Heart Institute, for being named as one of their best reviewers by editors from Cell Press. She shares her experience and philosophies on peer reviewing in this issue of Cell.

Congratulations to Wolfgang Bergmeier, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UNC, for receipt of R35 from the NHLBI, which supports accomplished leaders in blood research. The purpose of the NHLBI R35 Program is to promote scientific productivity and innovation by providing long-term support and increased flexibility to experienced...