{"id":26886,"date":"2025-10-03T12:24:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/?p=26886"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:26:06","slug":"leon-coleman-wins-james-w-woods-junior-faculty-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/leon-coleman-wins-james-w-woods-junior-faculty-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon Coleman wins James. W. Woods Junior Faculty Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Congratulations to Leon Coleman, MD, PhD, winner of a 2025-26 James W. Woods Junior Faculty Award, which recognizes Dr. Coleman&#8217;s outstanding accomplishments!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/03\/lcoleman_neu_200x230.png\" alt=\"Leon Coleman, MD PhD\" width=\"200\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The James W. Woods Junior Faculty Award recognizes and supports outstanding young members of the medical school clinical faculty. It provides a $3000 monetary award for one year that can be used at awardees&#8217; discretion to further their research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/directory\/leon-coleman-md-phd\/\"><strong>Dr. Coleman<\/strong><\/a> is an Assistant Professor in the Pharmacology Department whose research focuses on immune mechanisms in drug addiction and critical illness, neurodegeneration, and extracellular vesicle signaling.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/intranet\/2025\/10\/announcing-the-2025-26-jefferson-pilot-and-james-woods-recipients\/\">James W. Woods awards for 2025-26 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a seminar honoring awardees <strong>on Tuesday, October 21 at 10:30 \u2013 11:30 AM in MBRB G-202 <\/strong>during Research Week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Leon Coleman, MD, PhD, winner of a 2025-26 James W. Woods Junior Faculty Award, which recognizes Dr. Coleman&#8217;s outstanding accomplishments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22429,"featured_media":24796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/03\/leon_coleman_250_2.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/03\/leon_coleman_250_2.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/03\/leon_coleman_250_2.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/03\/leon_coleman_250_2.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/03\/leon_coleman_250_2-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Leon Coleman, MD PhD","category_details":[{"name":"Faculty News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/news\/faculty-news\/"},{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26886"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26896,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26886\/revisions\/26896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}