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!

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!

Our grad students visited Spring Hill Goat Farm for some fall fun carving pumpkins with baby goats!

The UNC School of Medicine has received the 2022 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.

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).

PHCO PharmFest was a Blast! We played human foosball! We had great food! Everyone had fun! Thanks for coming out!

Dr. Cummins successfully defended his PhD, “Design of hyper-stable proteins completely from scratch that efficaciously inhibit oncogenic G proteins.”