December 23, 2021
Ting Receives Illinois State University Distinguished Alumni Award
Jenny Ting, PhD, is the recipient of the Illinois State University Distinguished Alumni Award for her outstanding immunology research.
Tag: Genetics
December 14, 2021
UNC NeuroSpark Research Award Winners Selected
Four research teams at the UNC School of Medicine won $25,000 pilot grants with the goal of increasing collaborations throughout the neurosciences, as part of a UNC NeuroSpark event.
October 19, 2021
Male-Female Differences in Heart Disease Could Start Before Birth
UNC School of Medicine and Princeton researchers, co-led by Frank Conlon, PhD, and Wei Shi, PhD, conducted a first-of-its-kind analysis to discover differences in how particular proteins in heart cells are expressed in genetically diverse male and female mice during the earliest embryonic stage, well before sex hormones influence cells.
October 13, 2021
Wolter Earns Young Investigator Award
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation named Justin Wolter, PhD, postdoc in the Neuroscience Research Center, as a recipient of the Young Investigator Award.
September 23, 2021
Rashmi Kumar Wins Prestigious P.E.O. Scholar Award
Rashmi Kumar Wins Prestigious P.E.O. Scholar Award, she is one of only 100 scholars within the U.S. and Canada to receive this award.
September 22, 2021
UNC Awarded $24-million NIH Grant to Improve Genomic, Precision Medicine
Jonathan Berg, MD, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, is a principal investigator of The Clinical Genome Resource, a multi-institution consortium initially launched in 2013 by the National Human Genome Research Institute to provide evidence-based evaluations of clinically relevant genes and variants.
September 15, 2021
Hampton receives NIA transition research award
Brea Hampton, a PhD candidate in the Genetics & Molecular Biology (GMB) curriculum and member of the Department of Genetics, has been awarded a competitive five-year Transition to Aging Research Award for Predoctoral Students from the National Institute of Aging (NIA).
September 10, 2021
UNC Researchers Awarded $9.25 Million to Study DNA Variance Related to Disease
Hyejung Won, PhD, is principal investigator of five-year project, part of the NIH’s $185-million Impact of Genomic Variation on Function consortium. UNC’s Karen Mohlke, PhD, and Michael Love, PhD, are co-investigators.
July 1, 2021
Scientists Find Genetic Cause, Underlying Mechanisms of New Neurodevelopmental Syndrome
Damaris Lorenzo, PhD, at the UNC School of Medicine, led the discovery of a new neurodevelopmental syndrome, its underlying genetic basis and molecular mechanisms, both important milestones on the road to create therapeutic strategies.
January 28, 2021
Scientists Find Key Function of Molecule in Cells Crucial for Regulating Immunity
UNC School of Medicine and UNC Lineberger scientists co-led by Jenny Ting, PhD, and Yisong Wan, PhD, uncovered a new molecular pathway important for the regulation of the adaptive immune system and the mitigation of autoimmune disease.
December 2, 2020
Kedziora Receives Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Grant
Katarzyna Kedziora, PhD, postdoctoral researcher in the UNC Department of Genetics, received a $740,000 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) grant to support increased collaboration and innovations in imaging technology research.
November 4, 2020
UNC Researchers Lead International Consortium to Improve Understanding of Genetics of Mouse Models
International consortium led by UNC Departments of Genetics and Computer Science publishes manuscript on the development and testing of a new tool to enhance the value of the laboratory mouse in biomedical research.