Author Archives: Betsy Clarke

Congratulations to Amy Aponte, Mckenzie Gehris, Anh Luu, Ryan Robb and Michael Sturdivant for your well earned recognition!

Dr. Bellinger successfully defended her PhD thesis,"Structural, Functional, and Transcriptional Responses of Nucleus Accumbens Microglia to Long-access Cocaine Self-Administration," under the guidance of Dr. Kate Reissner!

Dr. Aponte successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Post-translational Regulation of the RB Tumor Suppressor in Response to CDK4/6 Inhibition" under the mentorship of Dr. Mike Emanuele!

Dr. Wang successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Decoding Cancer Biology Using Single-Cell Multiomics" under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Brunk.

Congratulations to Dr. Terry Kenakin on being named a Fellow of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (FASPET) as part of the 2025 Fellows Class.

Congratulations to Dr. Yinglong Miao for earning major media attention for his team’s groundbreaking study revealing, for the first time, how G-protein complexes detach from activated GPCRs—a key step in cell signaling.

Big congratulations to Dr. Bryan L. Roth and Dr. Xi-Ping Huang for being named among Carolina’s 2025 Highly Cited Researchers!

Eight poster and three oral presentations, and best T-shirt design won awards at the Pharmacology 2025 research retreat.

Dr. Bivins successfully defended her thesis, "Evolution of Antimicrobial Resistance in N. Gonorrhoeae: Balance Between Essential Function and Preventing Antibiotic Activity." under the direction of her mentor, Dr. Rob Nicholas.

Dr. Gentile successfully defended her thesis, "Impact of the L421P Mutation in Penicillin-Binding Protein 1 on Fitness and Antibiotic Resistance in Neisseria Gonorrhoeae" under the guidance of her mentor, Rob Nicholas.