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Alumnus of the Month: Garrett Ainslie (2014 CiTEM PhD)

July 13, 2022

  Could you describe your career trajectory?   My first exposure to my current field of work came during my bachelor’s program, where I completed a 6 month cooperative education fellowship at Merck in the Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics (DMPK) group; a department I had not previously even known existed. My project exposed me to … Read more

NC Award Recipients (2016)

June 23, 2022

  Two members of the Curriculum in Toxicology receive the North Carolina Award, the highest civilian honor given by the state of North Carolina. Dr. Linda Birnbaum, Director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, and Dr. Aziz Sancar, Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UNC-CH and the recipient of the … Read more

CiTEM Trainees Honored

June 23, 2022

In addition to publishing over 20 first-author papers, our CiTEM trainees have received 20 poster and travel Awards, are the winners of NC Impact Awards in 2019 and 2020 (Bevin Blake and Yael-Natalie Escobar), winners of the NIEHS 3-minute thesis competition (Bevin Blake), were inducted into the UNC Frank Porter Graham Honor Society (Elise Hickman), … Read more

Alexia Perryman Awarded ToxScholar Grant to Serve as Invited Speaker at California State University-East Bay

April 26, 2022

Congratulations to Alexia Perryman for receiving the Society of Toxicology ToxScholar Outreach Grant to support her visit to California State University-East Bay (CSU-EB), where she served as an Invited Speaker for the “Introduction to Toxicology” undergraduate course. Alexia was hosted by the instructor, UNC CiTEM alumnus Brett Winters, and his students. Alexia presented on inhalation … Read more