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Scientists Create Non-Psychedelic Compound with Same Anti-depressant Effect

October 14, 2022
The Roth Lab and collaborators from UC San Francisco, Yale, Duke, and Stanford developed a new compound that hits the same brain cell target as psychedelic drugs, triggering long-lasting anti-depressant action without psychedelic effects in mice. Kuglae Kim is co-first author of the Nature paper.

Yeh, Maduekwe selected as inaugural recipients of the Lustgarten Foundation’s LEAD Project grant

September 22, 2022
The Lustgarten Foundation has awarded its inaugural Lustgarten Equity, Accessibility, and Diversity (LEAD) Project grant to Jen Jen Yeh, MD, in support of her PROmoting CLinicAl TrIal EngageMent for Pancreatic Cancer App Study (PROCLAIM Study).

Pharmacology celebrates PharmFest!

August 26, 2022
PHCO PharmFest was a Blast! We played human foosball! We had great food! Everyone had fun! Thanks for coming out!

Congratulations to our new PhD, Matthew Cummins!

August 22, 2022
Dr. Cummins successfully defended his PhD, "Design of hyper-stable proteins completely from scratch that efficaciously inhibit oncogenic G proteins."

Our Carolina Summer Fellowship 2022 Students Celebrate at Frankie’s Fun Park!

August 10, 2022
Congratulations to all our Carolina Summer Fellowship Program Students on completing their Summer Research! Looks like everyone had a good time!

Congratulations to our Carolina Summer Fellows for Successfully Completing the 2022 Program!

August 10, 2022
Kudos to our CSF students who gave their oral and poster research presentations July 25th and 26th. You all gave awesome presentations!

Congratulations to our new PhD, Dr. Lucas Aponte-Collazo!

August 3, 2022
Dr. Aponte-Collazo successfully defended his PhD, "Exploring the role of mitochondrial protease ClpP in apoptosis regulation of triple negative breast cancer cells," July 27.

ºÚÁÏÍø Names 2021-22 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars

July 7, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Mauro Calabrese, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, on being named a 2021-22 Yang Family Biomedical Scholar!

Cook Named Chair of Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

July 7, 2022
Congratulations to Jean Cook, Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, and joint Professor of Pharmacology on being named Chair of Biochemistry & Biophysics!

Kristen Bryant leads ºÚÁÏÍø Running Rascals to another great year at PurpleStride Pancreatic Cancer Fundraiser!

June 29, 2022
Congratulations to Kirsten Bryant and the ºÚÁÏÍø Running Rascals team for their astonishing success in fundraising for pancreatic cancer research at the annual Raleigh-Durham PurpleStride!