October 16, 2024
A new study from the lab of Pengda Liu, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics, has identified a new biological function of 2’3’-cGAMP in the control of cell migration and cancer metastasis. This research also provides further insights into statin drugs that block cell migration.
October 9, 2024
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M. Jumper for their groundbreaking work in computational protein design and protein structure prediction. UNC’s Brian Kuhlman made significant contributions to this work while a postdoctoral researcher in the Baker lab.
August 15, 2024
Taghreed Mohammed Al-Turki, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the UNC Lineberger lab of Jack Griffith, PhD, describes her long, difficult, and rewarding journey of becoming a telomere scientist as a first-time mother at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
July 18, 2024
Researchers in the lab of Jean Cook, PhD, chair and professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, have identified the cellular processes that occur when you take a cancer drug meant to stop rapid cell growth in tumors.
July 16, 2024
In this new Vital Signs series, we feature graduate student Skylar Grimsley in the Starbird lab. Grimsley is investigating genetic variations of ABCA7, a protein that has been shown to increase one's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
May 23, 2024
Molecular biologist Jordi Xiol posted a fascinating entry on his Substack page “Vineyard Books, a blog on history and science,” featuring UNC School of Medicine’s Charles Carter, PhD, professor of biochemistry and biophysics, and his research into the proteins that spurred life on Earth four billion years ago.
May 15, 2024
Guochun Jiang, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics and member of the UNC HIV Cure Center, received an R01 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for his project “Defining the HIV reservoir and latency mechanism in human brain myeloid cells” which is funded for five years and $4.6 million.
January 10, 2024
A research team led by Gaorav Gupta, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the UNC School of Medicine and member of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, discovered the inner workings of an immune response pathway that could aid in cancer prevention and treatment.
November 15, 2023
Susanna Stroik, PhD, and Dale Ramsden, PhD, in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine, have learned more about an enzyme found to be overly expressed in patients with hereditary breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and prostate cancer.
November 8, 2023
During University Research Week, the labs of Dirk Dittmer, PhD, Jack Griffith, PhD, and Joshua Strauss, PhD, won the Art-in-Science Competition held by the UNC School of Medicine Office of Research.
July 3, 2023
Using a newly developed algorithm and a validation study, two labs in the UNC School of Medicine find that cancer hijacks a class of enzyme motif mutations to fuel tumorigenesis.
June 16, 2023
Yuyang Tang, PhD, and Guochun Jiang, PhD, in the UNC School of Medicine extracted living brain tissue to conclude that specialized immune cells in the brain can harbor latent but replication-competent HIV.