Congratulations to M&I faculty members Yisong Wan and Maureen Su, who are inaugural recipients of the Yang Family Biomedical Scholars Award. These annual awards were established by Mr. Yuanqing Yang, the CEO of Lenovo, to recognize some of the most promising recently tenured faculty at UNC’s School of Medicine. Yisong and Maureen will have the … Read more

Congratulations to our UNC colleague Aziz Sancar, Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, who has just been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.” See http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2015/

A bi-specific antibody molecule is the basis for a new strategy to kill HIV-infected cells, as described in a Journal of Clinical Investigation article from M&I Professor David Margolis and colleagues. See the story at the link below. DART Protein Shows Potential as Shock-and-Kill Strategy Against HIV – Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases

We’ve welcomed 79 new graduate students in UNC’s Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program (BBSP). They will spend most of this academic year doing research rotations and taking classes as they decide which lab and Department to join for their dissertation research and predoctoral training. Read comments from some of those students – including four who … Read more

• Jon Serody has been named to the 2015 Newsweek Top Cancer Doctors list: https://unclineberger.org/news/newsweek-top-docs • Bruce Cairns discusses how a Duke Endowment grant will help fund a telemedicine network to connect hospital emergency departments to the NC Jaycee Burn Center in Chapel Hill: http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2015/july/telemedicine-network-links-uncs-jaycee-burn-center-with-affiliate-hospitals • Dave Margolis is interviewed on “The State of Things” … Read more

After seven years on the UNC faculty, M&I Associate Professor Tony Richardson has moved to the University of Pittsburgh. Tony has been an integral part of the Department’s growth and activity in the area of microbial pathogenesis His research on Staphylococcus aureus is wide-ranging, spanning immunometabolism to pathogen evolution. His work has been recognized with … Read more

At the 8th International AIDS Society Conference today, M&I Professor Mike Cohen reported on the long-term effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy in preventing HIV transmission in heterosexual couples. See the News & Observer article at the link below. UNC researchers: Drug cocktails can stop sexual transmission of HIV

July’s issue of Science includes a report from the lab of M&I Professor Jeff Dangl and is featured in the UNC News article at the link below. Plant defense hormones help sculpt root microbiome – UNC News

Congratulations to Blossom Damania, who has just been named the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Microbiology & Immunology. These endowed professorships were established in 1969 by Cary Carlisle Boshamer, a member of the class of 1917. Boshamer was a textile industrialist and a generous donor to UNC, and his gifts included the Diamond Heels … Read more

Twenty-two new basic and translational research articles, reviews, and commentaries from M&I labs have been posted at Scoop.it! You can browse them all or you can filter by PI. The list at the link below is updated daily and now includes 122 recent publications by 53 M&I groups. http://www.scoop.it/t/unc-microbiology-and-immunology