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Channing Der, PhD, will be honored along with 23 other ºÚÁÏÍø faculty and teaching assistants at a banquet to celebrate the 2019 University Teaching Award winners.

The Office of Graduate Education at the ºÚÁÏÍø recognized 10 faculty members from across ºÚÁÏÍø-Chapel Hill’s campus as Excellence in Basic Science Mentoring Award winners at a January 15 ceremony with a keynote address.

ºÚÁÏÍø researchers including Leslie Parise, PhD, and graduate student, Alex Chung, have designed a novel way to attack an aggressive breast cancer.

Led by Leslie Morrow, PhD, research shows how new compounds could target specific brain cell receptors to treat a wide variety of conditions, such as alcoholism, Alzheimer’s, depression, and posttraumatic stress.

Pharmacology’s Bryan Roth teamed with UCSF and European researchers to create a platform to screen hundreds of millions of never-before-synthesized compounds and then produce remarkably potent antibacterial and psychiatric drug candidates.

Congratulations to Channing Der for receiving a $600,000 grant to study Pancreatic Cancer! See his interview in the Daily Tar Heel!

Congratulations to Juan Song who will be awarded one of four 2019 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement.

ºÚÁÏÍø researchers led by Mauro Calabrese, PhD, have developed a way to categorize mysterious RNA molecules by their likely function, a big first step toward quickening the discovery of their roles in human health and diseases, such as cancers.