Above photo: Ken with symposium speakers (L to R): Qisheng Zhang, Len Stephens, John Hepler, Ken, Alex Brown, Roger Sunahara and Eduardo Lazarowski. The Pharmacology department hosted a half-day symposium on October 21, 2014 honoring Professor T. Kendall Harden. Ken joined the Pharmacology department in 1977 as an Assistant Professor and has been with UNC … Read more
Led by Bryan L. Roth, MD, PhD, three UNC labs will develop the next generation neuroscience tool-kit to accelerate novel treatments for neuropsychiatric and a host of other diseases. ~by Mark Derewicz
Photo above (R to L) Ernesto with his mentor, Dr. Christian Jobin. Click for larger image. Ernesto Perez-Chanona, a member of the Jobin lab, successfully defended his dissertation September 18, 2014 and will officially receive his Ph.D. December 14, 2014 when he graduates. The title of his dissertation is “Microbial signaling in intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury … Read more
Drs. Bryan Roth and Gary Johnson receive 2 of 9 grants awarded by the NIH Illuminating the Druggable Genome Initiative which is supporting research to study 4 of the most commonly drug-targeted protein families
Zefeng Wang’s paper published in Cancer Cell this week shows that the splicing factor RBM4 suppresses proliferation and migration of various cancer cells by specifically controlling cancer-related splicing.
Dr. Kayla Knilans with her mentor, Dr. Alex Duncan Kayla Knilans, a member of Alex Duncan’s lab, successfully presented her thesis and received her Ph.D. August 7, 2014. The title of her dissertation was “The role of lytic transglycosylases LtgA and LtgD in innate immune recognition and pathogenesis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.” Our congratulations to Kayla! … Read more
Dr. Juan Song, recipient of the Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award It was announced this week that Dr. Juan Song, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, is a recipient of the Society of Neuroscience (SfN) Janet Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award. This award, previously known as the Career Development Award until 2011, was … Read more
Michael Miley, PhD, and Ashutosh Tripathy, PhD, are the new co-directors for the UNC Center for Structural Biology (CSB). CSB has also launched a brand new website.
Christopher Turner, Executive Director for Finance & Research Administration for Pharmacology, retires after 30 years with the University.
Sarah Nicolson, a member of Jude Samulski’s lab, defended her thesis and received her Ph.D. July 7, 2014. The title of her thesis was “Understanding mechanisms of Adeno-associated virus vector transduction through pharmacological and biological approaches.” Our congratulations to Sarah!
