Category: Faculty News

Congratulations to Bryan Roth, Yoojoong Kim and collaborators, who received some nice press for their work determining the structure of a common taste receptor—and finding an unlikely ligand! Yoojoong Kim is first author

The Office of Graduate Education at UNC SOM gave Shout-Outs to four more PHCO Mentors, honoring Tim Elston, PhD, Gavin Schmitz , PhD, Sandra Zarmer, and Cole Martin. Congratulations to all!

Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, PhD, on being named Most Praised Mentor at UNC Pharmacology and UNC McAllister Heart Institute!

Klaus Hahn, PhD, the Ronald G. Thurman Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at the UNC School of Medicine, will co-lead this Chan Zuckerberg Initiative project with colleagues at Duke University and North Carolina State University.

Our very own Jonathan Schisler, PhD, and Leon Coleman, MD, PhD, along with the associate director of the Neuroscience Center, Ben Philpot, PhD, were awarded a five-year $675,000 grant to lead a summer undergraduate experience program.

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.

Dr. Henrik Dohlman named the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Fellow of 2023 in recognition of his dedication to advance the field of Pharmacology.

Kirsten Bryant shares what motivates her in the lab and reflects on her driving force to find new potential therapies for pancreatic cancer.

Dr. Antonio Baines spoke with ABC11 for the Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month to raise awareness about pancreatic cancer.