{"id":5363,"date":"2015-04-24T21:52:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T01:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/patrick-mccarter-highlighted-in-vital-signs\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T15:58:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T20:58:29","slug":"patrick-mccarter-highlighted-in-vital-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/patrick-mccarter-highlighted-in-vital-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick McCarter Highlighted in Vital Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Lead&quot;\">Patrick McCarter, graduate student in the Elston lab was highlighted in Student Profiles on the School of Medicines&#8217; Vital Signs News April 23, 2015.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-section\">\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2018\/11\/patrick-mccarter-highlighted-in-vital-signs-image2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2018\/11\/patrick-mccarter-highlighted-in-vital-signs-image2.jpeg\" alt=\"image2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Patrick McCarter, graduate student in the Elston Lab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n&#8220;When you sit in the sun, or undergo chemotherapy, or age, or eat certain foods, millions of cells in your body respond. They <i>must <\/i>respond. They\u2019re preprogrammed to respond because they need to survive. Sometimes, though, these adaptive responses go haywire and can play roles in diseases as diverse as cancers, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, and gastrointestinal disorders.Graduate student Patrick McCarter studies the mechanisms that control the responses inside cells. He wants to know how cellular signaling pathways operate in simple organisms, such as yeast, so that he can one day better understand the cell signaling underpinnings of human diseases.<\/p>\n<p>We sat down with Patrick for a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/@@search?Subject%3Alist=Student%20profile\">Student Profile<\/a> to find out about where he\u2019s from, why he chose biomedical research, and what he\u2019s been working on at the 黑料网.&#8221; <em>(except from School of Medicine Vital Signs April 23, 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/news\/2015\/april\/the-man-from-kansas?utm_source=vs-email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about Patrick, his research and how he came to be at 黑料网.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick McCarter, graduate student in the Elston lab was highlighted in Student Profiles on the School of 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