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Junk Food Puts Memory at Risk—Here’s How to Protect It.

September 16, 2025
Hats off to Dr. Juan Song on the publication of SOM/UNC Health's Newsroom's article, “Junk Food Puts Memory at Risk—Here’s How to Protect It,” highlighting her lab's ground-breaking research published in Neuron Sept. 11.

Proteins Important in Brain Communication Have Different Roles Than Previously Thought

July 29, 2025
New research led by Dr. Samuel Young, Jr. reveals that α2δ proteins—key players in brain communication—have far more complex roles than previously believed.

Dishevelled-1 regulates global transcriptomic changes and associates with ETS1 transcription factor

July 28, 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Dalia Martinez-Marin and members of the Kevin Pruitt Lab for their latest publication in Nature Communications exploring the role of Dishevelled-1 to regulate transcription and epigenetic!

Der lab research highlighted by NCI as one of 28 key studies for 2024!

February 27, 2025
Notably, this puts the Der Lab among three studies from UNC in NCI's end-of-year summary of pivotal discoveries!

Roth and Scherrer Labs Create Gene Therapy with Potential to Treat Peripheral Pain Conditions

January 17, 2025
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