Keriayn Smith, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Genetics, was selected as one of six inaugural recipients of grants from the Hypothesis Fund to advance early-stage innovative research.

The European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy honored the UNC School of Medicine’s Jude Samulski, PhD, co-founder and chief science officer of AskBio, with its inaugural Founder’s Award.

UNC School of Medicine researchers Sarah Cohen, PhD, and Mohanish Deshmukh, PhD, along with Stanford’s Serena Young, PhD, were selected for second-phase funding for the CZI Neurodegeneration Challenge Network.

Joe Piven, MD, the Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, co-presented an overview of autism research in older populations before the US DHHS Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee.

Samuel McLean, MD, MPH, professor in the UNC Department of Psychiatry, is set to launch a new initiative for the purpose of creating interventions to prevent posttraumatic stress, depression, chronic pain, and other severe consequences of trauma.

Eva Anton, PhD, professor of cell biology and physiology and member of the UNC Neuroscience Center, received an NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award to study the underpinnings of brain malformations and neurodevelopmental disorders.

The $8-million dollar DISENTANGLE initiative, led by Sam McLean, MD, MPH, at the UNC School of Medicine and funded through the U.S. Department of Defense, will leverage the latest data on brain injury biomarkers and clinical observations to prevent and treat severe posttraumatic symptoms.

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation awarded more than $7.9 million in grants to 16 early-career physician scientists, including two from the UNC School of Medicine – Andrea Knittel, MD, PhD and Peyton Thompson, MD.

UNC Lineberger's Chad V. Pecot, MD, published a paper that found inflammatory monocytes, immune cells that build clots to promote wound healing, also make it possible for tumor cells to migrate to other parts of the body.

Chad Pecot, MD, associate professor of medicine and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, will lead the new center dedicated to the investigation of the many roles of RNA in health and disease.

The American Society for Microbiology selected Miriam Braunstein, PhD, in the UNC Department of Microbiology & Immunology, as a distinguished lecturer for a two-year term.

Mauro Calabrese, PhD, Nilu Goonetilleke, PhD, and Adam Hantman, PhD, were selected as Yang Family Biomedical Scholars in the sixth installment of this annual School of Medicine award.

Following trauma, feeling detached from one’s surroundings may suggest a higher risk of later developing psychiatric symptoms, according to research led by Harvard and McLean Hospital investigators, who are part of the NIH-funded AURORA Study led nationally by UNC’s Sam McLean, MD.

Tag: Faculty

Smith Selected as Hypothesis Fund Seed Grant Recipient

Samulski Receives Inaugural Award for Pioneering Gene Therapy

Cohen, Deshmukh Selected for Second Round of CZI Funding

Piven Presents on Autism in Older Age to Special U.S. DHHS Interagency Committee

McLean Launches PREVAIL to Tackle Traumatic Stress

Anton Receives NIH High Risk-High Reward Grant

UNC-led Initiative Set to Gain Insights to Improve Posttraumatic Outcomes

Knittel, Thompson Receive Clinical Scientist Development Awards

UNC Lineberger Creates RNA Discovery Center

Braunstein Named ASM Distinguished Lecturer

UNC School of Medicine Names 2021-22 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars

Feelings of Detachment Predict Worse Mental Outcomes After Trauma