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The School of Medicine Dean’s Office Research awarded Pharmacology’s Nicholas Brown, PhD the Jefferson-Pilot Fellowships in Academic Medicine which are given to talented junior faculty across all disciplines in the School of Medicine. Congratulations on your award!

Nicholas G. Brown, PhD
Nicholas G. Brown, PhD, recipient of Jefferson-Pilot Fellowships in Academic Medicine

“The Jefferson-Pilot Fellowships in Academic Medicine are given to talented junior faculty across all disciplines in the School of Medicine. The 2023-2024 recipients of these awards were Nicholas Brown, PhD and Jose Rodriguez Romaguera, PhD. They both provided a seminar on October 23, 2023 during UNC Research Week. Brown is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, and is also a member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Brown received his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Baylor College of Medicine and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Brown joined the faculty in 2017 and has developed an outstanding research program focused on the molecular interactions that are essential to the timing of events in the cell cycle. Brown has published over 50 articles and has received numerous awards including the NIGMS Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award for Early-Stage Investigators, and the American Heart Association Innovative Project Award. Brown’s seminar was entitled “Dissecting Ubiquitination Mechanisms in Eukaryotic Signaling and Disease” ~Excerpt from the UNC Medicine Office of Research 2023 Annual Report

Congratulations, Nick! It is very much deserved!

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