Sarah Rhie (Song Lab) and Marie Rougie (Hahn Lab) receive 2014 Star Heel Awards from the University.

Dr. Terry Kenakin to Receive the 2014 Gaddum Memorial Award from the British Pharmacological Society.

Alfred Dolge, Purchasing Manager for the Department of Pharmacology, received his 15 Year Service Award in May.

  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

Pictured above: First row (L-R): Cayce Dorrier (Tom Kash’s lab); Laura Weng (Alex Duncan’s lab); Raymond Zhang (Lee Graves’ lab) Second row: Dr. Rob Nicholas and Dr. Lee Graves; and Colin McDowell (Rob Nicholas’ lab). Click for larger image. Each year the Department of Pharmacology selects a number of undergraduate students to receive Carolina Summer … Read more

Seven new BBSP Students gave end of year presentations upon joining the Pharmacology Department’s graduate program.

Justin English, a member of Henrik Dohlman’s lab, defended his thesis and received his Ph.D. April 1, 2014. The title of his thesis is “Stress on a Deadline: Setting a Timer for Adaptation in Living Cells.” Justin will be working as postdoc in the lab of Bryan Roth in the Pharmacology Department at UNC-CH via … 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

Above photo: Kate with her parents, Luann and Bill White, of Peoria, IL. Click for larger view. Kate White, a member of Bryan Roth’s lab, successfully defended her thesis and received her Ph.D. April 7, 2014. The title of her dissertation was ” Identification of biased kappa opioid receptor ligands for in vivo probing of … Read more