{"id":27279,"date":"2026-01-07T10:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/?p=27279"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:55:39","slug":"yinglong-miaos-groundbreaking-research-into-g-proteins-earns-major-media-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/yinglong-miaos-groundbreaking-research-into-g-proteins-earns-major-media-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Yinglong Miao&#8217;s groundbreaking research into G-proteins earns major media attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><p class=\"lead\">Congratulations to Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/directory\/yinglong-miao\/\"><b>Yinglong Miao<\/b><\/a> for earning major media attention for his team\u2019s groundbreaking study revealing, for the first time, how G-protein complexes detach from activated GPCRs\u2014a key step in cell signaling. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20313\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 260px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20313 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2023\/01\/miao_yinglong_2-250.jpg\" alt=\"Yinglong Miao, PhD\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2023\/01\/miao_yinglong_2-250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2023\/01\/miao_yinglong_2-250-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Yinglong Miao, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Using advanced molecular simulations, the Miao Lab uncovered mechanisms that could guide the development of safer, more precise therapeutics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Wang J, Nguyen ATN, Adediwura VA, Lu CS, McNeill SM, J\u00f6rg M, Scammells PJ, Christopoulos A, May LT, Miao Y. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2512423122\">Dissociation kinetics of G proteins from G protein-coupled receptors and effects of allosteric modulation.<\/a> <i>Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A<\/i>. 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The study has already been featured on <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Phys.org<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and highlighted widely for its scientific importance. This recognition reflects the growing impact of Dr. Miao\u2019s work in advancing computational biophysics and drug discovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Read the full press feature, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-11-protein-simulations-reveal-critical-cells.html\">&#8220;G protein simulations reveal how a critical signaling step works inside cells.&#8221;\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr. Yinglong Miao for earning major media attention for his team\u2019s groundbreaking study revealing, for the first time, how G-protein complexes detach from activated GPCRs\u2014a key step in cell signaling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22429,"featured_media":20313,"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-27279","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\/2023\/01\/miao_yinglong_2-250.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2023\/01\/miao_yinglong_2-250.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2023\/01\/miao_yinglong_2-250.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2023\/01\/miao_yinglong_2-250.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2023\/01\/miao_yinglong_2-250-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Yinglong Miao, 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\/27279","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=27279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27287,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27279\/revisions\/27287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}