The award will fund her scholarly pursuits over one year. Congratulations, Liz!

Led by graduate student Jeff DiBerto, the UNC School of Medicine lab of Bryan Roth teamed with scientists in China to publish detailed structures of the entire human opioid receptor family to guide the creation of more targeted pain medications.

Congratulations to Tom Kash on being named the new Director of the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies!

The Bryan Roth lab got some nice press for their recent Nature paper, revealing structural details of his chemogenetic technology called DREADD – designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs – that recognize drug-like but physiologically inert compounds. Postdoc Shicheng Zhang, PhD, led this research published in Nature.

Jude Samulski’s pioneering work in gene therapy is honored by the The European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy with its 2022 Founders Award. Congratulations, Jude!

The Roth Lab and collaborators from UC San Francisco, Yale, Duke, and Stanford developed a new compound that hits the same brain cell target as psychedelic drugs, triggering long-lasting anti-depressant action without psychedelic effects in mice. Kuglae Kim is co-first author of the Nature paper.

The Lustgarten Foundation has awarded its inaugural Lustgarten Equity, Accessibility, and Diversity (LEAD) Project grant to Jen Jen Yeh, MD, in support of her PROmoting CLinicAl TrIal EngageMent for Pancreatic Cancer App Study (PROCLAIM Study).

Congratulations to Dr. Mauro Calabrese, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, on being named a 2021-22 Yang Family Biomedical Scholar!

Congratulations to Jean Cook, Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, and joint Professor of Pharmacology on being named Chair of Biochemistry & Biophysics!

Congratulations to Kirsten Bryant and the UNC Running Rascals team for their astonishing success in fundraising for pancreatic cancer research at the annual Raleigh-Durham PurpleStride!