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Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, and Todd J. Cohen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, UNC Neuroscience Center, for having their research teamwork to cure Alzheimer’s together featured in The Daily Tar Heel.  

Congratulations to Juliane Nguyen, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Member of McAllister Heart Institute, Associate Professor, Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, In Collaboration With Shelton Earp, M.D. (UNC Lineberger), for the receipt of R01 from the NCI. As part of this grant, they will develop a protein-based platform...

Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, and Todd J. Cohen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, UNC Neuroscience Center, for working to develop potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.       Dr. Schisler, a neuroscientist, and Dr. Cohen, a heart researcher, began working together in 2016 after meeting...

Congratulations to the lab of Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, for welcoming five new undergraduate interns for the spring semester.           The new research lab interns are Najla Ward-Conyers, Kaathya Kashyap, Rabea Pfaff, Dhatri Kakarla, and Oliva Rice.

Congratulations to Edward M. Bahnson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, McAllister Heart Institute, Nick Buglak, a toxicology and environmental medicine Ph.D. student, and Sophie Maiocchi, a post-doctoral fellow, in collaboration with Francis Joseph Miller, MD (Duke University)...

Congratulations to Rick Stouffer, M.D., Ernest and Hazel Craige Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine; Division Chief, Cardiology; Physician-in-Chief, UNC Heart and Vascular Service Line and Craig R. Lee, Pharm.D., Ph.D., FCCP, FAHA, Associate Professor of Pharmacy, Interim Vice Chair for Research and Graduate Education for publishing paper, entitled “Frequency and...

Raj S. Kasthuri, MBBS, MD Featured On Vimeo, Explaining The Role Of Cure HHT Congratulations to Raj S. Kasthuri, MBBS, MD, Hematologist and Director of the UNC HHT Center of Excellence, for being featured on Vimeo, explaining the vital role Cure HHT plays in bringing the HHT community together.  ...

Congratulations to the lab of Saskia Neher, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, for presenting and moderating at the 2019 Triangle Area Cryo-EM Symposium. The Neher Lab members, past and present, did a great job presenting and moderating at the first triangle area Cryo-EM symposium.

Congratulations to Karina Kinghorn, a CBP student in Victoria Bautch’s lab, for being awarded a prestigious American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship. Karina’s fellowship provides stipend support for 2 years for her project, titled “Trafficking and secretion of soluble VEGFR1 as a regulator of angiogenic sprout guidance”.

Congratulations to the lab of Kathleen M. Caron, Ph.D., Department Chair, Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, for publishing paper, entitled “Pinopodes: Recent advancements, current perspectives, and future directions” in the journal Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology.