Emily won the Impact Award for her project “Multi-omic Analysis of Pharmacological ClpP Activation in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells.

The NIH fellowship will support Madigan’s research in Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome.

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.

Everyone had a great time at the 2022 Annual Awards Ceremony & holiday dinner December 9 at the Carolina Club!

Dr. Chappell defended her thesis, “KSHV Viral Protein Kinase (vPK) Interacts with USP9X to Modulate the Viral Lifecycle,” Nov. 30! Dr. Blossom Damania is her mentor.

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.

Dr. Fennell defended her thesis, “Profiling the Multi-omic Response to Mitochondrial Protease ClpP Activation in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells,” November 22!

Congrats to our second year students on passing their qualification exams!

There was a lot of great tasting food and everyone had a good time! Thanks to all who brought food!