Author Archives: Betsy Clarke

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;...

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.

Dr. LIttle successfully defended her thesis, “Determination of cross-species immune responses from outer membrane vesicle-based meningococcal vaccines to Neisseria gonorrhoeae," under the guidance of Alex Duncan, MD, PhD, on October 17.

Dr. Graboski successfully defending her thesis, “Characterization and Inhibition of Gut Microbial Tryptophanase and its Implications in Chronic Kidney Disease" on September 21.

Zoe McElligott, PhD, was one of three UNC addiction medicine researchers featured in Vital Signs. This translational research team is battling the opioid epidemic by analyzing the ever-changing composition of street drugs and testing how emerging drug combination such as xylazine and fentanyl interact in rodent models.

Dr. Sandroni, of Brian Jensen's Lab, successfully defended his PhD thesis, "The Alpha-1A Adrenergic Receptor Regulates Oxidative Metabolism in the Mouse Heart" on June 26.