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Michael Emanuele's and Nicholas Brown's Labs have published a paper in PLOS Biology! Check it out!

Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler who co-authored two papers published in Cell and Cell Reports a week apart detailing the results of NASA space flight studies.

Congratulations to Blossom Damania, PhD, for being named one of six recipients of the Excellence in Basic Science Mentoring Award!

Xi-Ping Huang and Bryan Roth are among twenty-one ºÚÁÏÍø and 17 other ºÚÁÏÍø-Chapel Hill researchers that have been named in Clarivate’s 2020 list of Highly Cited Researchersâ„¢.

The Mauro Calabrese & Jonathan Schisler labs contributed to a genetics study published in the Nov. 2020 issue of Genetics to improve rigor and reproducibility in mouse research.

Congratulations to all of us for all the amazing research we do!  U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of Best Global Universities ranks us #2 in Pharmacology & Toxicology for second year in a row!

The Nature Communications paper details how the cardioprotective effects of protein kinase G are mediated by the protein quality control enzyme CHIP, reducing proteotoxicity in heart failure. Becky Sanchez is coauthor.

Congratulations to Blossom Damania and her lab, including PHCO grad student and co-author, Danielle Chappell, on the publication in Cell Reports of a paper on "High-density amplicon sequencing identifies community spread and ongoing evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in the Southern United States."

Congratulations to Zoe McElligott, PhD, and Jimena Giudice, PhD, who earned Jefferson-Pilot Fellowships for their work on alternative splicing biology and neural signaling involved in opioid withdrawal!

Juan Song's lab publishes a paper in Neuron showing the cell-signaling role of a neuropeptide called cholecystokinin, which is important in regulating neural stem cells and creating adult-born neurons within the hippocampus of the brain.