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Each year the Department of Pharmacology selects a number of undergraduate students to receive Carolina Summer Fellowships (CSF) that will allow them to do a research project for the summer in one of the Pharmacology department’s labs.

Using a new ‘chemogenetic’ technique invented at ºÚÁÏÍø, scientists turn neurons ‘on’ and ‘off’ to demonstrate how brain circuits control behavior in mice. This unique tool – the first to result from the NIH BRAIN Initiative – will help scientists understand how to modulate neurons to more effectively treat diseases.

Patrick McCarter, graduate student in the Elston lab was highlighted in Student Profiles on the School of Medicines' Vital Signs News April 23, 2015.

Three Pharmacology graduate students, Nicole Baker, Marissa Cann and Carrie Rubel, were honored for receiving prestigious external fellowship awards at The 17th Annual Graduate Student Recognition Ceremony held April 9.

Using human cancer cell lines, ºÚÁÏÍø scientists identified various ways that HER2-positive breast cancer tumors resist therapy, and they discovered a potential combination therapy to overcome multiple mechanisms of resistance and kill cancer cells.

Jayme Warischalk, a member of the Jude Samulski lab, successfully defended her Ph.D. March 18, 2015. Our congratulations to Jayme!

Congratulations to Carrie Rubel for receiving the Thomas Collum Butler Graduate Fellowship Award and to Kate Lansu and James Shellhammer, who received Pharmacology Scholars Awards.

Graduate student Orrin Stone is creating molecular tools to pinpoint how and when cellular pathways trigger cell movement – or, in cancer, metastasis.

Photo above (R to L) Ernesto with his mentor, Dr. Christian Jobin. Click for larger image. Ernesto Perez-Chanona, a member of the Jobin lab, successfully defended his dissertation September 18, 2014 and will officially receive his Ph.D. December 14, 2014 when he graduates. The title of his dissertation is “Microbial...

Dr. Kayla Knilans with her mentor, Dr. Alex Duncan Kayla Knilans, a member of Alex Duncan’s lab, successfully presented her thesis and received her Ph.D. August 7, 2014. The title of her dissertation was “The role of lytic transglycosylases LtgA and LtgD in innate immune recognition and pathogenesis of Neisseria...