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. 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.
Dr. Terry Kenakin to Receive the 2014 Gaddum Memorial Award from the British Pharmacological Society.
Dr. Juan Song Juan Song received a 4- year, $308,000 award from American Heart Association. In the proposed experiments, the Song lab will investigate the local interneuron circuits that mediate stroke-induced neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus for endogenous neural regeneration upon brain injuries. For more information visit the Song Lab or American Heart Association. … Read more
Dr. Juan Song Dr. Juan Song has been awarded a highly selective grant from the Whitehall Foundation. She will receive $225,000.00 over three years to study the neural circuits that regulate synapse dynamics of adult-born neurons in the hippocampus. Dr. Juan Song is an Assistant Professor in Pharmacology and UNC Neuroscience Center. Her research … Read more
Rajarshi Choudhury, PhD CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Researchers in the UNC School of Medicine found that the protein DAZAP1 plays a key role in the regulation of many genes through a process known as alternative splicing, and when highly expressed in cancer cell line experiments, DAZAP1 was shown to inhibit several types of cancer … Read more
UNC Lineberger member Gary Johnson, PhD, professor and chair of the UNC Department of Pharmacology, has been tapped to join Synodos, a team of scientists working together to defeat the rare genetic disorder neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2).
Press release by Mark Derewicz for UNC Hahn Lab paper published online in Nature Chemical Biology March 9, 2014.
Juan Song and Tom Kash have been elected to serve on the School of Medicine Assistant Professor Advisory Committee. This committee is to brainstorm for a vision for the future of biomedical research at UNC. Ccomprised of assistant professors in the tenure track, this committee represents many of the youngest and brightest faculty. Part of … Read more
