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Inside the world of cell signaling: a G-protein breakthrough

January 4, 2017
ºÚÁÏÍø scientists led by John Sondek, PhD, created a new biochemical tool to block specific types of downstream G-protein signaling, opening new avenues of research and potential drug design and discovery.

Engineering Control of Cellular Proteins – An Optogenetics Breakthrough

December 21, 2016
ºÚÁÏÍø scientists expand the use of light to control protein activity in cells. Klaus Hahn and Nikolay Dokholyan have published a paper in Science, detailing how they use light- or ligand-sensitive domains to modulate the structural disorder of diverse proteins, thereby generating robust allosteric switches. The title of the paper...

Nicole Arnold and Brian Golitz Receive Staff Excellence Awards!

December 15, 2016
Congratulations to Nicole Arnold, Pharmacology Student Services Manager, and Brian Golitz, Director of the RNAi Screening Facility, who received Pharmacology Staff Excellence Awards at the Pharmacology annual awards ceremony and holiday celebratoin at the Kenan Center on December 8, 2016! Nicole won the admin Staff Excellence Award and Brian won...

Marissa Cann and John McCorvy Receive Pharmacology Awards!

December 15, 2016
  Marissa Cann receiving the Pharmacology Scholar Award from Dr. Henrik Dohlman. John McCorvy receiving the Postdoc Excellence Award from Dr. Henrik Dohman. Congratulations to Marissa Cann, a graduate student in the Lawrence Lab, and John McCorvy, a postdoc in the Roth Lab, for receiving Pharmacology awards at the Pharmacology...

J. Peyton Bohnsack Receives Thomas Collum Butler Award!

December 15, 2016
J. Peyton Bohnsack receives the Thomas Collum Butler Award from Henrik Dohlman Congratulations to J.Peyton Bohnsack, a graduate student in the Morrow Lab, who received the Thomas Collum Butler Award at the Pharmacology annual award ceremony and holiday celebration at the Kenan Center on December 8, 2016! Peyton’s work in...

Brent Asrican Receives Junior Faculty Development Award!

December 7, 2016
Congratulations to Brent Asrican, Research Assistant Professor in the Song Lab, for receiving a prestigious Junior Faculty Development Award! The award, which he was notified of this week, will provide support to Brent’s research in 2017. Brent proposes to use electrophysiology, optogenetics and chemogenetics to determine how neuropeptides, such as...

Eric Zimmerman gives Lab to Life Seminar

December 6, 2016
Dr. Eric Zimmerman, an alumnus of the Pharmacology Graduate Program and former member of the Graves Lab, spoke at a Lab to LIfe Seminar about his current position and the path that led him to it on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016. Dr. Zimmerman received his PhD from the Department of...

Pharmacology’s Thankful Thursday! Spare Change Event A Success!

December 5, 2016
Change is POWERFUL! The Pharmacology Department joined with the NC State Employees Combined Campaign’s Thankful Thursday! Spare Change Collection project which was held the week of Nov. 17, 2016, raising $233! The proceeds will benefit the Food Bank of Central and Eastern Carolina. Many thanks to all who participated! Your...

Matt Goulet Gives From Lab to Life Seminar

November 21, 2016
Matt Goulet, a Specialist in Clinical Pharmacology and Project Management at Nuventra Pharma Sciences, gave a From Lab to Life Seminar on November 16, 2016. He talked about where he works now and how he got to that position from graduate school. He also talked about how to successfully network...

Mihai Azoitei Receives 2016 Postdoctoral Scholar Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduates!

November 15, 2016
Congratulations to Dr. Mihai Azoitei, a postdoctoral fellow in the Hahn lab, for being the recipient of ºÚÁÏÍø’s 2016 Postdoctoral Scholar Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduates! Counting current students, Mihai has mentored five undergraduates in his three years at ºÚÁÏÍø. They have been involved in all types of research,...