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Leah Norona conducted an internship at OrganovoTM to learn more about 3D human tissue bio-printing technology

May 19, 2015
Leah Norona, graduate student in the lab of Dr. Ed LeCluyse at the Hamner Institutes is receiving support from OrganovoTM (ONVO) to pursue her doctoral dissertation aimed at understanding the mode of action underlying fibrogenic chemicals. Leah submitted a proposal outlining the utility of ONVO’s model system with which to...

Alumnus of the Month: Dan Kemp, Ph.D., DABT

March 13, 2015
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Alisa Suen is awarded the 2015 Anita Payne Scholarship for attending the Frontiers in Reproduction (FIR) course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts

March 13, 2015
Alisa Suen, graduate student in the lab of Dr Carmen Williams, is the 2015 recipient of the Anita Payne Scholarship. This award was established in 2012 by the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) to help support the cost of travel and participation in the Frontiers in Reproduction (FIR)...

Dr Folami Ideraabdullah receives K22 from NIEHS to study epigenetic perturbations of endocrine disrupting compounds

January 29, 2015
Dr Folami Ideraabdullah, an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Genetics and Nutrition and newly appointed member of the Curriculum in Toxicology, just received a Transition to Independent Environmental Health Research (TIEHR) Career Development Award (K22) from NIEHS on a project entitled “A genetic approach to understanding mechanisms of epigenetic...

Dr Samir Kelada an Outstanding New Environmental Scientists (ONES) Career Development Award from NIEHS on Gene-Environment Interactions between Ozone and Development of Asthma.

January 29, 2015
Dr Samir Kelada is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and newly appointed member of the Curriculum in Toxicology. He just received an Outstanding New Environmental Scientists (ONES) Career Development Award from NIEHS. His proposed studies will utilize a new mouse genetics resource, the Collaborative Cross (CC), to...

Drs Watkins and Brouwer developed, DILIsym, a computer program designed to predict how drugs will affect the liver.

October 30, 2014
  DILIsym, a computer model developed by the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences (Dr. Watkins) has been used by researchers at UNC to solve a nearly 20 year old mystery about a new drug designed to treat type 2 diabetes –Troglizatone-. After its inception in 1997 it had killed 63...

New Research in Emerging Tobacco Products…

October 30, 2014
Students, post-docs, and investigators from the CiT are investigating potential health effects caused by new and emerging tobacco products as part of the UNC-SOM Center for Tobacco Regulatory Science. To see more http://www.med.unc.edu/tcors-lung/about-us The UNC School of Medicine Center for Tobacco Regulatory Sciences (TCORS) is headed by Dr Robert Tarran...

Research conducted by trainees and members of the Curriculum in Toxicology described in EPA’s final NextGen Report.

October 30, 2014
“Next Generation Risk Assessment: Recent Advances in Molecular, Computational, and Systems Biology” describes how new molecular, computational and systems biology data and approaches (together called “NexGen”) could better inform risk assessment. The final report put together by EPA’s National Center for Environmental Assessment describes results from a multiyear, multi-organization effort...