Author Archives: Sue Modlin

Full details of the announcement can be found on the UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom Website. Led by Ben Philpot, PhD, and Matt Judson, PhD, the new therapy was generally well-tolerated and prevented key signs of the condition in animal models.

Full details of the announcement can be found on the UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom Website. Hyejung Won, PhD, is principal investigator of five-year project, part of the NIH’s $185-million Impact of Genomic Variation on Function consortium. UNC’s Karen Mohlke, PhD, and Michael Love, are co-investigators.

Full details of the announcement can be found on the UNC School of Medicine Genetics Website. Drs. Jason Stein (Assistant Professor) and Hyejung Won (Assistant Professor) have been awarded an U01 grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) for their project titled “Discovery and validation of genetic variation...

Full details of the announcement can be found on the UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom Website. Michelle Itano, PhD, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Cell Biology and Physiology and Director of the Neuroscience Microscopy Core at the UNC School of Medicine, was selected as the...

Full details of the announcement can be found on the UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom Website. Damaris Lorenzo, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, led the discovery of a new neurodevelopmental syndrome, its underlying genetic basis and molecular mechanisms, both important milestones on the road to...

Full details of the announcement can be found on the UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom Website. Dr. Katie Baldwin and colleagues published a paper June 24, 2021 in Neuron entitled “HepaCAM controls astrocyte self-organization and coupling.” This study shows how the loss of the protein hepaCAM drives...

Full details of the announcement can be found on the Beckman Foundation Website. The funded project title is : Bidirectional Neuroprosthetics with Miniature Optical Brain Machine Interfaces Optical brain machine interfaces use light to monitor and manipulate activity, but current technologies cannot reliably communicate with more than a few dozen neurons...

The lab of Greg Scherrer, PhD, associate professor in the UNC Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, investigates the precise ways in which opioids interact with brain mechanisms and then, armed with a better understanding of the underlying biology, the lab pursues new ways to block pain without causing significant...

Dr. Jason Stein (Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics) and colleagues have published a manuscript in Nature Neuroscience (20 May 2021) titled “Cell-type specific effects of genetic variation on chromatin accessibility during human neuronal differentiation”. This study, led by Dr. Dan Liang as part of her dissertation research, was focused on...

The labs of Jose Rodríguez-Romaguera, Jason Stein, and Hyejung Wong were each awarded $50k pilot grants from NC TraCs. Jose Rodríguez-Romaguera, PhD will be collaborating with Rebecca Grzadzinski, PhD (Asst Professor, Psychiatry/Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities) in a project entitled “Atypical Social Arousal as an Early Marker of ASD.” Jason...