Using human cancer cell lines, UNC scientists identified various ways that HER2-positive breast cancer tumors resist therapy, and they discovered a potential combination therapy to overcome multiple mechanisms of resistance and kill cancer cells.
Jayme Warischalk, a member of the Jude Samulski lab, successfully defended her Ph.D. March 18, 2015. Our congratulations to Jayme!
Congratulations to Carrie Rubel for receiving the Thomas Collum Butler Graduate Fellowship Award and to Kate Lansu and James Shellhammer, who received Pharmacology Scholars Awards.
Graduate student Orrin Stone is creating molecular tools to pinpoint how and when cellular pathways trigger cell movement – or, in cancer, metastasis.
Photo above (R to L) Ernesto with his mentor, Dr. Christian Jobin. Click for larger image. Ernesto Perez-Chanona, a member of the Jobin lab, successfully defended his dissertation September 18, 2014 and will officially receive his Ph.D. December 14, 2014 when he graduates. The title of his dissertation is “Microbial signaling in intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury … Read more
Dr. Kayla Knilans with her mentor, Dr. Alex Duncan Kayla Knilans, a member of Alex Duncan’s lab, successfully presented her thesis and received her Ph.D. August 7, 2014. The title of her dissertation was “The role of lytic transglycosylases LtgA and LtgD in innate immune recognition and pathogenesis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.” Our congratulations to Kayla! … Read more
Sarah Nicolson, a member of Jude Samulski’s lab, defended her thesis and received her Ph.D. July 7, 2014. The title of her thesis was “Understanding mechanisms of Adeno-associated virus vector transduction through pharmacological and biological approaches.” Our congratulations to Sarah!
The four Carolina Summer Fellows made presentations of their summer research July 21, 2014. The students, their mentors and the titles of their talks were Caye Dorrier, Colin McDowell, Laura Weng and Raymond Zhang.
Jeran Stratford, a member of Jen Jen Yeh and Channing Der’s labs received his Ph.D. after successfully defending his thesis July 3, 2014. Our congratulations to Jeran!
Doug Ornoff, a member of Nancy Allbritton’s lab, successfully defended his thesis and received his Ph.D. June 19, 2014. Our congratulations to Doug!
