Jimena Giudice, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Alternative splicing is a posttranscriptional mechanism that explains how individual genes can produce more than one transcript due to the inclusion or exclusion of specific regions originating multip … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Cell Biology & Physiology, McAllister Heart Institute |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cardiovascular Biology, Cardiovascular disease, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Genetics, Molecular Biology |
Misty Good, MD, MS |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The Good Laboratory is focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of a devastating intestinal disease primarily affecting premature infants called necrotizing entero … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Nutrition |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Behavior, Bioinformatics, Cardiovascular Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology |
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AFFILIATIONS: Center for GI Biology and Disease (CGIBD), Genetics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Gastrointestinal Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Microscopy, Molecular Biology, Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cells |
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AFFILIATIONS: Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Physiology |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biochemistry & Biophysics, Lineberger Cancer Center, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Molecular Biology, Structural Biology, Virology |
Robert S. Hagan, MD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I am an innate immunologist with a focus on pulmonary infections including viral (influenza, SARS-CoV-2) and bacterial (Streptococcus pneumoniae). My training background is in signaling biochemistry a … Read more |
Zongchao Han, MD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I am trained in neuroscience with specialty in viral and non-viral nano-biomaterials-mediated gene/drug therapy. My research focuses on the use of nanotechnologies and biocompatible materials to devel … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Genetics, Lineberger Cancer Center, Ophthalmology, Pharmaceutical Sciences |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering, Drug Delivery, Drug Discovery, Gene Therapy, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, Nanomedicine, Pharmacology |
Erin Heinzen, PharmD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The Heinzen Lab focuses on the identification and functional characterization of rare genetic variants that cause epilepsy and other neurodevelopmental disorders. The lab uses cutting-edgesequencing a … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Neuroscience Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Neurobiology, Stem Cells |
Mark Heise, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: We study alphavirus infection to model virus-induced disease. Projects include 1) mapping viral determinants involved in encephalitis, and 2) using a mouse model of virus-induced arthritis to identif … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Institute for Global Health & Infectious Disease, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Genetics, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Pathogenesis & Infection, Virology |
Laura Herring, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Laura Herring is the Director of the UNC Proteomics Core Facility which provides mass spectrometry-based proteomics services for the analysis of proteins from tissues, cells or other biological sample … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Lineberger Cancer Center, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Chemical Biology, Drug Discovery, Genetics, Immunology, Metabolism, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Nanomedicine, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Plant Biology, Quantitative Biology, Systems Biology, Translational Medicine, Virology |
Matthew Hirsch, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our lab works with adeno-associated viral vectors for both the characterization of vector and host responses upon transduction and as therapeutic agents for the treatment of genetic diseases. In part … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Microbiology & Immunology, Ophthalmology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Drug Delivery, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Nanomedicine, Translational Medicine |






