The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated a critical need to establish a pre-emptive stockpile of tangible immunobiological countermeasures to accelerate the response to potential pandemic threats. To address this need, Matthew Vogt, MD, PhD, and Michelle Hernandez, MD, have established a pandemic response repository through microbial and immunological surveillance and epidemiology (PREMISE) initiative. Read the full … Read more

Richard C. Boucher, MD, was consulted for an article in Newsweek about COVID-19 nose-only masks for that are emerging in South Korea. The masks are intended to allow wearers to eat and drink while keeping their noses covered. Read the full story here.

UNC researchers — among them Marsico Lung Institute’s Jonathan Fay, PhD — optimized the function of a microscope for cryogenic electron microscopy (CryoEM) to maximize the throughput and performance of the microscope housed in the UNC Chapel Hill Cryo-EM Core Facility. This method development is demonstrated successful for structural studies of GPCRs, a large group … Read more

The UNC Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology, led by Ilona Jaspers, PhD, was awarded an EPA cooperative agreement for $4.5 million over three years. Read the full story here.

Timothy Moran, MD, PhD, is a recent recipient of the NIEHS Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award. The objective of this 5-year, $2.68 million R01 research grant is to investigate how the indoor environment impacts peanut allergy development in children. Read the full story here.

Matthew Wolfgang, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and a member of the Marsico Lung Institute, has been granted a UNC Creativity Hubs Pilot Pre-Proposal Award by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Funding will support the further development of Dr. Wolfgang’s team science proposal as it advances to the next stage … Read more

Cosmos, a website dedicated to the science of everything, posted a top ten list of the best science videos of 2021, and coming in at number seven is a video of cellular movement from research in the labs of Klaus Hahn and Tim Elston, both in the UNC Department of Pharmacology. Read the full story … Read more

The Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture 2021 was delivered by Craig A. Fletcher, DVM, PhD, on the topic of animal models of disease that are utilized by UNC. The video of Dr. Fletcher’s lecture can be viewed here. Read more about the Norma Berryhill Distinguished Lecture series here.

Jim Hagood, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, and Ronit Freeman, PhD, Associate Professor in Applied Physical Science, have been awarded a grant by Eshelman Institute for Innovation to pursue research in lung fibrosis. Read the full story here.

This new method, created by the UNC School of Medicine labs of Klaus Hahn and Tim Elston, has the potential to super-charge the study of human proteins as they interact and change their conformations in fundamentally important ways in human health and disease. Read the full story here.