Parul Johri, PhD (Assistant Professor, Biology and Genetics) won the 2024 Early-Career Excellence Award from the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.

The UNC Department of Genetics joined together with the Department of Pharmacology, the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB), the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB), and the UNC Office of Rural Initiatives to participate in a day of community outreach with “Camp Med”.

UNC Research Core Facilities are shared services that enhance and expand the collaborative capabilities of Carolina’s research enterprise.

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The NIH Office of the Director-funded grant “Iron-CLAD: securely advancing All of Us participant characterization with proven platforms and collaborations” (Dr. Melissa Haendel, PI) has been transferred to UNC Genetics.

Dr. Piotr Mieczkowski (Professor, Genetics) was awarded an equipment grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBC) for his proposal titled “Enhancing the High Throughput Sequencing Facility at UNC: Upgrading from Fluent 1080 to Tecan DreamPrep NGS Workstation for Improved Capability”.

The Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data (CLAD), led by Dr. Melissa Haendel (Distinguished Professor, Genetics) “expands the types and research utility of program data available to researchers through passive data streams.” 

Laura Raffield, PhD (Assistant Professor, Genetics) has been awarded a new U01 grant from NIA for her project titled “Proteomic biomarkers of incident cognitive impairment in Black and White adults”.

Jim Crowley, PhD (Professor, Genetics) was awarded an R13 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to fund student, postdoc, and junior faculty attendance to the Annual Latin American Congress on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. 

Erin Heinzen, PharmD, PhD (Associate Professor, Pharmacy and Genetics) was awarded a new R21 grant from NINDS for her project titled “Genotype-informed single-cell transcriptomic profiling of mosaic brain tissue”.