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Graduate students awarded Sabin Family Foundation travel grants

May 6, 2013
May 2013 – Second-year graduate students Leigh Ann Samsa and Lin Xiao have each been awarded a travel grant provided to the McAllister Heart Institute by the Sabin Family Foundation. Leigh Ann recently joined the lab of Dr. Jiandong Liu and Lin is mentored by Dr. Drew Dudley. Both are...

Eva Anton is new Associate Director of the Neuroscience Center

April 30, 2013
  Dr. Anton April 2013 – Professor Eva Anton will take on a new role as Associate Director of the Neuroscience Center. He will spearhead a number of new initiatives soon including a review of facilities and space allocation and contributing to ’s response to the Brain Initiative.

Adam Gracz awarded Dissertation Completion Fellowship

April 16, 2013
April 2013 – Fourth-year graduate student Adam Gracz has been awarded at Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School for the 2013-2014 academic year. The fellowship supports doctoral students in the final year of their dissertations, providing a stipend, tuition and fees, and health insurance. Adam is a student...

Itano was selected as a winner of the 2011 LCCC Graduate Fellowship Award.

January 25, 2013
Michelle Itano formerly of the Jacobson Lab now has a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rockefeller University.

Two Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies fellows receive ISBRA Presidents Awards

January 10, 2013
October 2012 - Dr. Robert Lipinski and Dr. Kristen Pleil received two of the five $1,000 International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ISBRA) Presidents Awards at the annual meeting in Sapporo, Japan in September.

Graduate students Adam Gracz and Tricia Lenhart to receive 2013 Graduate Education Advancement Board Impact Awards

December 7, 2012
December 2012 - Congratulations to physiology graduate students Adam Gracz and Tricia Lenhart, 2013 recipients of 's Graduate Education Advancement Board (GEAB) Impact Award

Lin Xiao nominated for HHMI International Student Research Fellowship

December 1, 2012
November 2012 - Graduate student Lin Xiao is one of seven nominees from for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Student Research Fellowship.

John Reader awarded a 4 year grant from the National Science Foundation

November 30, 2012
September 2012 – Dr. John Reader has been awarded a 4 year grant from the National Science Foundation, Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences. The project is entitled “Studies on Agrocin 84—a Trojan Horse tRNA synthetase inhibitor.” Additional details at: http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1158488

James Faber receives new funding from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute

November 20, 2012
November 2012 - Professor James Faber received a new four-year R01 grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute

Arendshorst and Tarran awarded NCTraCS Pilot Grant

October 30, 2012
October 22, 2012 - Drs. William Arendshorst and Robert Tarran have been awarded an NC TraCS $5K-$50K Pilot Grant