Category: News

Congratulations to the lab of Melina Kibbe, M.D., Colin G. Thomas, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery; Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, for publishing paper, entitled “Development of Poly(1,8-octanediol-co-citrate-co-ascorbate) Elastomers with Enhanced Ascorbate Performance for Use as a Graft Coating to Prevent Neointimal Hyperplasia” in the journal ACS...

Congratulations to Nigel Key, M.B., CH.B., F.R.C.P., Director of UNC Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center and Saira Z. Sheikh, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine; Director, UNC Rheumatology Lupus Clinic; Director, Clinical Trials Program at UNC’s Thurston Arthritis Research Center, In Partnership With EpiCypher, for the receipt of NIH Phase II Small...

Congratulations to Nigel Mackman, Ph.D., FAHA, John C. Parker Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Associate Director for Basic Science, for publishing paper, entitled “Therapeutic strategies for thrombosis:  new targets and approaches”, in the journal Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. Dr. Mackman’s paper is featured in the March 4, 2020 edition of Nature...

Congratulations to Leslie V. Parise, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, for being appointed new Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Vermont. Dr. Parise is widely recognized for cardiovascular and cancer research. She has served as the department chair of...

Congratulations to the lab of Kathleen M. Caron, Ph.D., Department Chair, Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, for having their vaping research study featured on the cover of Endocrine News. The recent study from Dr. Caron’s lab shows that there are distinct ill effects of e-cigarettes and the health of the...

Congratulations to Edward Moreira Bahnson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, and Pablo Ariel, Ph.D., Director, Microscopy Services Laboratory, for developing New Method To Assess Vascular Injury. The Bahnson Research Group and Dr. Ariel worked together to develop a new method to assess...

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.