Drs. Bryan Roth and Gary Johnson receive 2 of 9 grants awarded by the NIH Illuminating the Druggable Genome Initiative which is supporting research to study 4 of the most commonly drug-targeted protein families
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. Kayla Knilans with her mentor, Dr. Alex Duncan Kayla Knilans, a member of Alex Duncan’s lab, successfully presented her thesis and received her Ph.D. August 7, 2014. The title of her dissertation was “The role of lytic transglycosylases LtgA and LtgD in innate immune recognition and pathogenesis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.” Our congratulations to Kayla! … Read more
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.
Christopher Turner, Executive Director for Finance & Research Administration for Pharmacology, retires after 30 years with the University.
Sarah Nicolson, a member of Jude Samulski’s lab, defended her thesis and received her Ph.D. July 7, 2014. The title of her thesis was “Understanding mechanisms of Adeno-associated virus vector transduction through pharmacological and biological approaches.” Our congratulations to Sarah!
The four Carolina Summer Fellows made presentations of their summer research July 21, 2014. The students, their mentors and the titles of their talks were Caye Dorrier, Colin McDowell, Laura Weng and Raymond Zhang.
Jeran Stratford, a member of Jen Jen Yeh and Channing Der’s labs received his Ph.D. after successfully defending his thesis July 3, 2014. Our congratulations to Jeran!
Doug Ornoff, a member of Nancy Allbritton’s lab, successfully defended his thesis and received his Ph.D. June 19, 2014. Our congratulations to Doug!
