Klaus Hahn, PhD, the Ronald G. Thurman Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at the UNC School of Medicine, will co-lead this Chan Zuckerberg Initiative project with colleagues at Duke University and North Carolina State University.
Congrats to Pharmacology’s Wesley Legant, PhD, and Department of Biomedical Engineering’s, Yu Shi, PhD, whose latest paper, “Smart Lattice Light-Sheet Microscopy for Imaging Rare and Complete Cellular Events” made the cover of Nature Methods Feb 20, 2024 issue!
Dr. Schmitz successfully defended his PhD thesis, “Identifying the Neurological Mechanisms Underlying Potential Therapeutic Effects of Psychedelic Compounds” under the guidance of co-PIs Melissa Herman and Bryan Roth on Feb. 2, 2024.
Our very own Jonathan Schisler, PhD, and Leon Coleman, MD, PhD, along with the associate director of the Neuroscience Center, Ben Philpot, PhD, were awarded a five-year $675,000 grant to lead a summer undergraduate experience program.
The wearable patch, called the Spatiotemporal On-Demand Patch (SOP), can receive commands wirelessly from a smartphone or computer to schedule and trigger the release of drugs from individual microneedles.
The article highlights their work using the protein-structure-prediction tool AlphaFold to identify potential new receptor ligands.
It was nice to see so many of you at our annual Holiday Celebration and Awards Ceremony this past Friday, thank you for attending. We would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to our 2023 award winners: Doug Leonard and Mimi Le Baltz, recipients of the Admin Staff Excellence Award; Thomas Webb (Proteomics Core), recipient … Read more
Dr. Cartaya successfully defended her PhD thesis, “Antioxidant Response Activating nanoparticles (ARAPas): Treating Arterial Disease in 3D” under the guidance of Edward Bahnson, PhD, on October 31.
Dr. Truong successfully defending his thesis on “The Roles of APOBEC3 Enzymes in Urothelial Carcinoma” under the guidance of William Y. Kim, M.D., on October 10.
Dr. Effinger successfully defended his thesis on “Sex-Specific Effects of Psychedelic Drug Administration on Stress-Related Brain Region Reactivity and Threat Responding” Nov. 7.
