Raquel Martiniz Chacin successfully defended her PhD on June 2! Hurray! Way to go!

Dan Sprague successfully defended his PhD on June 17th. Way to go, Dan!

Congratulations to Pharmacology graduate student Raquel C. Martinez Chacin, who is first author on a paper published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology Journal! The paper by the Brown Lab in collaboration with the Emanuele Lab, Jean Cook lab, and other researchers at UNC and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna was published May 11, 2020!

In recognition of May being National Mental Health Awareness Month, Pharmacology is holding its 1st Annual Mental Health Awareness Week for PHCO Students, Monday, May 18 – Friday, May 22, with different topics and facilitators for each day’s session.

The lab of Bryan Roth, MD, PhD, was part of a large research project led by the University of California-San Francisco to identify viral proteins and virus-host protein interactions that could become important drug targets to treat people with COVID-19.

Edhriz Siraliev-Perez, a graduate student in John Sondek’s lab defended his PhD by zoom successfully on March 27!  Congratulations, Edhriz, we’re proud of you!

Mike Pablo, a graduate student in Tim Elston’s and Klaus Hahn’s labs, successfully defended his PhD via Zoom on Monday, March 23 despite the challenges of having to defend remotely.  Congratulations, Mike! We’re proud of you!!

Jennier Kernan, graduate student in Mike Emanuele’s lab successfully defended her thesis March 9!

Ian McDonald, graduate student in Lee Graves’ lab, successfully defended his PhD on March 5, 2020!

Pharmacology held its annual Holiday Celebration and End of Year Awards at the Carolina Club Dec. 6. There were 10 winners and a new award! Congratulations to this years award winners!