Gene therapy pioneer Jude Samulski, PhD, professor of pharmacology at the UNC School of Medicine, is featured in this NPR story about a 30-year research journey from idea to treatment reality for kids with muscular dystrophy.
Raquel Martiniz Chacin successfully defended her PhD on June 2! Hurray! Way to go!
Dan Sprague successfully defended his PhD on June 17th. Way to go, Dan!
Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a team of internationally acclaimed researchers led by UNC School of Medicine’s Bryan L. Roth, MD, PhD, aims to create new medications to effectively and rapidly treat depression, anxiety, and substance abuse without major side effects.
Congratulations to Pharmacology graduate student Raquel C. Martinez Chacin, who is first author on a paper published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology Journal! The paper by the Brown Lab in collaboration with the Emanuele Lab, Jean Cook lab, and other researchers at UNC and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna was published May 11, 2020!
UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Klaus Hahn, PhD, John Sondek, PhD, and Daniel Marston, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Texas Southwestern reveal the inner workings of cellular communication and processes important for cell migration and potentially metastasis.
An interdisciplinary research working group on space biology formed by NASA has transformed into the Coronavirus International Research Team, which includes Jonathan Schisler, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine.
In recognition of May being National Mental Health Awareness Month, Pharmacology is holding its 1st Annual Mental Health Awareness Week for PHCO Students, Monday, May 18 – Friday, May 22, with different topics and facilitators for each day’s session.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Kirsten Bryant, who has been selected as a 2020 Forbeck Scholar!
Welcome to Amanda Hall, who is our new Student Wellness Counselor for BBSP, taking over for Alli Schad,who is now working primarily with medical students.