Sara Pacini Selected to Represent UNC School of Medicine in the 2026 CLARION Competition! May 13, 2026 The CLARION Competition brings students from different disciplines together to develop system-level solutions to improve healthcare.
Congratulations to our new PhD, Sagan de Castro! May 13, 2026 Dr. de Castro successfully defended his Phd thesis, Neuroimmune Mechanisms of Adolescent Alcohol-Induced Neuropathology" under the guidance of Dr. Ryan Vetreno!
Congratulations to our new PhD, Michael Sturdivant! May 13, 2026 Dr. Sturdivant successfully defended his PhD thesis, "The Distinct Roles of APOBEC3A and APOBEC3B in APOBEC3-Driven Mutagenesis in Urothelial Carcinoma," under the mentorship of the Dr. William Kim.
Congratulations to our new PhD, Sabrina Daglish! May 13, 2026 Dr. Daglish successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Small Molecule ClpP Activators Impair Mitochondrial Function and Induce Senescence in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer," under the direction of Dr. Lee Graves!
Congratulations to our new PhD, Anthony Hazelton! May 5, 2026 Dr. Hazelton successfully defended his PhD thesis, “Engineering Probiotic Yeast for Targeted Oral Protein Delivery in IBD,” under the guidance of Dr. Juliane Nguyen!
Congratulations to our new PhD, Cole Martin! April 30, 2026 Dr. Martin successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Changing The Guardian's Playbook: Dissecting How Cancer Driver Rewire p53 Gene Regulatory Networks," under the guidance of Dr. John Morris IV!
Congratulations to our new PhD, Rachel VanKeulen-Miller! April 29, 2026 Dr. VanKeulen-Miller successfully defended her PhD thesis, "The Dynamic Cell as a Contextual Variable in the Mechanism and Efficacy of mRNA Lipid Nanoparticles," under the direction of Dr. Owen Fenton!
Five Pharmacology graduate students recognized at the Annual Graduate Student Recognition Celebration April 21, 2026 Congratulations to Amy Aponte, Mckenzie Gehris, Anh Luu, Ryan Robb and Michael Sturdivant for your well earned recognition!
Congratulations to our new PhD, Dr. Tania Bellinger! April 9, 2026 Dr. Bellinger successfully defended her PhD thesis,"Structural, Functional, and Transcriptional Responses of Nucleus Accumbens Microglia to Long-access Cocaine Self-Administration," under the guidance of Dr. Kate Reissner!
Congratulations to our new PhD, Amy Aponte April 9, 2026 Dr. Aponte successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Post-translational Regulation of the RB Tumor Suppressor in Response to CDK4/6 Inhibition" under the mentorship of Dr. Mike Emanuele!