Danielle Chappell, Pharmacology graduate student in the Damania lab, co-hosts a podcast on “Bias, misinformation and COVID-!9”

This work, published in Cell and led by the Roth lab sets the stage for the discovery of new kinds of antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, and treatments for substance use disorders. Kuglee Kim is co-first author on the paper.

Waylin Yu, graduate student in Tom Kash’s lab, successfully defended his PhD thesis Sept. 3. Way to go Waylin!

Congratulations to Dr. Yadong Li, postdoc in the Juan Song lab, on being awarded a prestigious Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) Young Investigator Grant!

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!