Dr. Juan Song Juan Song received a 4- year, $308,000 award from American Heart Association. In the proposed experiments, the Song lab will investigate the local interneuron circuits that mediate stroke-induced neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus for endogenous neural regeneration upon brain injuries. For more information visit the Song Lab or American Heart Association. … Read more

  Dr. Juan Song Dr. Juan Song has been awarded a highly selective grant from the Whitehall Foundation. She will receive $225,000.00 over three years to study the neural circuits that regulate synapse dynamics of adult-born neurons in the hippocampus. Dr. Juan Song is an Assistant Professor in Pharmacology and UNC Neuroscience Center. Her research … Read more

  Rajarshi Choudhury, PhD CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Researchers in the UNC School of Medicine found that the protein DAZAP1 plays a key role in the regulation of many genes through a process known as alternative splicing, and when highly expressed in cancer cell line experiments, DAZAP1 was shown to inhibit several types of cancer … Read more

UNC Lineberger member Gary Johnson, PhD, professor and chair of the UNC Department of Pharmacology, has been tapped to join Synodos, a team of scientists working together to defeat the rare genetic disorder neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2).

Press release by Mark Derewicz for UNC Hahn Lab paper published online in Nature Chemical Biology March 9, 2014.

Juan Song and Tom Kash have been elected to serve on the School of Medicine Assistant Professor Advisory Committee. This committee is to brainstorm for a vision for the future of biomedical research at UNC. Ccomprised of assistant professors in the tenure track, this committee represents many of the youngest and brightest faculty. Part of … Read more

New targeted therapies for pain, Parkinson’s disease, and depression carry the promise of greater benefit for patients without serious side effects.

In a paper published in Nature Neuroscience on November 10, Juan Song discovers how baby neurons stay alive, a key finding for understanding neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s.

Klaus Hahn (Pharmacology), John Sondek (Pharmacology), Keith Burridge (Cell and Developmental Biology), Alan Hall (Sloan-Kettering Institute), and Gaudenz Danuser (UT Southwestern) have been awarded a 5-year Program Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health to study GEF/Rho GTPase signaling circuitry.

The September 2013 issue of UNC Medical Builletin highlights Zefeng Wang’s paper about gene splicing, introns and splicing repression in the January 2013 issue of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, “A complex network of factors with overlapping affinities represses splicing through intronic elements.”