2019 Hettleman Prizes awarded to promising early-career faculty August 22, 2019 – 2:37 pm | Posted in A-Migrate, Arts & Humanities, Research, Science & Technology The annual Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement have been awarded to four associate professors who exemplify groundbreaking and innovative research along with future career promise. The … Read more
UNC McAllister Heart Institute scientists led by Li Qian, PhD, developed a single-cell genomics pipeline to discover the molecular roadmap underlying the conversion of human scar-making fibroblasts into cardiomyocytes.
Benjamin Vincent, MD, Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology) and his lab have performed a comprehensive genomics evaluation of the tumor immune microenvironment in The Cancer Genome Atlas dataset, discovering six immune subtypes of cancer. These and other findings are associated with survival and are being developed as biomarkers of immunotherapy response in multiple tumor … Read more
Guorong Wu, PhD, and his lab are interested in developing cutting-edge computational tools to understand the brain, using state-of-the-art neuroimaging, genetics, and machine-learning technologies. With this in mind, they work to discover biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases, characterize genetic influences on brain structure, and create personalized diagnostic engines.
Time‐lapse imaging of cell‐cycle phase transitions reveals that phase durations are uncoupled and can be modeled as an Erlang process. Phase coupling can be forced by perturbing a strong cell‐cycle regulator acting on multiple phases.
Li Qian, PhD, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, has been named the associate director of McAllister Heart Institute effective October 1, 2018.
In a study published in the journal NPJ Breast Cancer, Charles M. Perou, PhD, Melissa Troester, PhD, graduate student Heather D. Couture and colleagues reported they used a form of artificial intelligence to train a computer to identify certain features of breast cancer tumors from images. UNC Lineberger’s Charles M. Perou, PhD, and Melissa Troester, … Read more
Jeremy Purvis is an Assistant Professor of Genetics and Cancer Cell Biology. His work is focused on signal transduction in single human cells, specifically interested in why genetically identical cells choose different fates and how these decisions are influenced by the cellular environment. His lab uses a variety of experimental and theoretical approaches including transcriptional … Read more
UNC Computational Medicine Program presenting inaugural seminar speaker, Regina Barzilay, PhD. Dr. Barzilay is a Delta Electronics professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests are in natural language processing, applications of deep … Read more
We conducted comprehensive integrative molecular analyses of the complete set of tumors in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), consisting of approximately 10,000 specimens and representing 33 types of cancer. We performed molecular clustering using data on chromosome-arm-level aneuploidy, DNA hypermethylation, mRNA, and miRNA expression levels and reverse-phase protein arrays, of which all, except for aneuploidy, … Read more