The UNC School of Medicine has received the 2022 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.
The Roth Lab and collaborators from UC San Francisco, Yale, Duke, and Stanford developed a new compound that hits the same brain cell target as psychedelic drugs, triggering long-lasting anti-depressant action without psychedelic effects in mice. Kuglae Kim is co-first author of the Nature paper.
The Lustgarten Foundation has awarded its inaugural Lustgarten Equity, Accessibility, and Diversity (LEAD) Project grant to Jen Jen Yeh, MD, in support of her PROmoting CLinicAl TrIal EngageMent for Pancreatic Cancer App Study (PROCLAIM Study).
PHCO PharmFest was a Blast! We played human foosball! We had great food! Everyone had fun! Thanks for coming out!
Dr. Cummins successfully defended his PhD, “Design of hyper-stable proteins completely from scratch that efficaciously inhibit oncogenic G proteins.”
Congratulations to all our Carolina Summer Fellowship Program Students on completing their Summer Research! Looks like everyone had a good time!
Kudos to our CSF students who gave their oral and poster research presentations July 25th and 26th. You all gave awesome presentations!
Dr. Aponte-Collazo successfully defended his PhD, “Exploring the role of mitochondrial protease ClpP in apoptosis regulation of triple negative breast cancer cells,” July 27.
Congratulations to Dr. Mauro Calabrese, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, on being named a 2021-22 Yang Family Biomedical Scholar!
Congratulations to Jean Cook, Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, and joint Professor of Pharmacology on being named Chair of Biochemistry & Biophysics!
