Author Archives: Betsy Clarke

Congratulations to Dr. Leon Coleman for receiving the prestigious 2025 ASPET Division for Neuropharmacology Early Career Award!

Dr. Welsh successfully defended her PhD Thesis, “Regulating the Anaphase-Promoting Complex/Cyclosome (APC/C): Intrinsic Mechanisms and Cell Cycle Inhibitors" under the guidance of Dr. Nicholas Brown.

PRISM is one of several initiatives that will be implemented for the next 5 years of the School of Medicine's strategic plan.

Notably, this puts the Der Lab among three studies from UNC in NCI's end-of-year summary of pivotal discoveries!

PAGERs, which has an innovative approach to controlling cell activity, was highlighted in Nature, including an interview with Bryan Roth

Dr. Fulton Crews was interviewed for a story on “Dry January” which aired on CBS Good Morning America.

Teams led by Bryan Roth, MD, PhD and Grégory Scherrer, PharmD, PhD, have developed a groundbreaking molecular technology to reduce pain by targeting peripheral nervous system (PNS) nociceptors

This prestigious honor, awarded to 170 exceptional inventors worldwide, is the highest professional distinction given exclusively to academic inventors.

Congratulations to Dr. Laura Peng, PhD and Yi Xu, PhD, working in the lab of Jen Jen Yeh, MD, on their groundbreaking findings published in Cancer Discovery!      

This is an extraordinary recognition of their impactful contributions to biomedical sciences. Both were also named to Clarivate’s list of Highly Cited Researchers in 2023.