Ralph Baric and Mark Heise have been awarded a five-year, $21.4M NIAID grant entitled “System immunogenetics of biodefense pathogens in the Collaborative Cross…”
M&I faculty member Mike Cohen (J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Associate Vice Chancellor Global Health) is one of 70 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM). This is just the latest in a string of honors for Mike, who headed the clinical trial (NIAID HPTN 052) that was named by … Read more
Blossom and Dirk discuss a new initiative of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center; click here to find out more.
That’s the title of a preview article for a new Cell Host & Microbe paper, “Microbiota Regulate Intestinal Absorption and Metabolism of Fatty Acids in the Zebrafish,” from co-corresponding authors John Rawls and Steven Farber…
A study recently published in Science illustrates important relationships between inflammation, gut microbiota, and tumorigenesis…
David Margolis’s group, in collaboration with Alan Perelson’s lab in Los Alamos, has been trying to understand the persistence of HIV infection despite treatment with antiretroviral drugs…
Roland Tisch’s group has discovered an immunotherapy that appears to be able to reverse the development of Type I diabetes in mice…
Researchers in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology have identified possible targets in the PI3K/AKT/mTOR metabolic pathway that could be used in the fight against non-Hodgkin lymphoma…
Congratulations to Ankunda Kariisa, a graduate student in Rita Tamayo’s lab, on being selected by the American Society for Microbiology as a recipient of the highly competitive Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship…
Congratulations to Department students and faculty who were featured award recipients at the mid-June General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology…
