Category: Faculty News

The study found that the vitamin D analog paricalcitol may help weaken the protective environment surrounding pancreatic tumors, potentially improving the effectiveness of chemotherapy.

This discovery could lead to new therapeutic strategies for multiple diseases.

Dr. Ferguson received the award at the Volterra International Conference on Alcoholism and Stress.

Congratulations on the publication of their recent article, "Advances in RAS Therapeutics for Pancreatic Cancer.” 

Congratulations to Dr. Dominguez on being honored with this prestigious award recognizing outstanding faculty excellence at UNC Chapel Hill!

The title of The New York Times article is, "How an ‘Impossible’ Idea Led to a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough!"

The award is one of two 2025–2026 Distinguished Teaching Awards for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction.

The article, “The Effect of Case-Based Instruction on Physician Assistant Pharmacology Education," was published in Cureus Journal of Medical Science, a Springer-Nature journal.

Congratulations to Dr. Terry Kenakin on being named a Fellow of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (FASPET) as part of the 2025 Fellows Class.

Congratulations to Dr. Yinglong Miao for earning major media attention for his team’s groundbreaking study revealing, for the first time, how G-protein complexes detach from activated GPCRs—a key step in cell signaling.