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SGC@UNC Researchers Adopt ‘Extreme’ Open Science, Share Data as It Happens

Researchers in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy are taking part in an experiment in experimentation by making their research publicly available as it happens. Postdoctoral research associates Alfredo Picado, Ph.D., and Carla Alamillo Ferrer, Ph.D., are participants in the … Continued

UNC Releases Huge Database of Molecules to Support Artificial Intelligence Methods in Chemistry

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Florida have publicly released a massive set of data that they used to create an artificial intelligence that drastically cuts the time needed to design new … Continued

UNC Researchers Create Light-Activated Version of a Ubiquitous Protein Kinase

  In a lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a tiny blue light flashes, and a protein switches on in a cell. Light directs the protein to the mitochondria of the targeted cell. Alternatively, by a … Continued

Kabanov Elected to National Academy of Inventors

  Alexander “Sasha” Kabanov, Ph.D., Dr.Sci., Mescal Swaim Feruguson Distinguished Professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the organization announced Tuesday. Kabanov is the director of the School’s … Continued

SGC-UNC Collaborates on $2.3 Million Project to Create Open Source Tech for Gene Discovery in Plants

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hub of the international Structural Genomics Consortium will partner with the University of California, Davis to study the genes of rice plants responsible for root growth. The scientists will create … Continued

Young Innovators Program Receives Burroughs Wellcome Fund Award

The Young Innovators Program, the Eshelman Institute of Innovation’s immersive research experiential program for high school students, has been awarded the Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Student Science Enrichment Program Award of $180,000 over three years. The SSEP’s primary goal is to … Continued

UNC Catalyst Hosts NIH/NCATS Assay Guidance Workshop

The UNC Catalyst for Rare Diseases, together with Promega, sponsored an NIH/NCATS assay guidance workshop for high-throughput screening and lead discovery on Monday, October 23. Forty-nine scientists from academia and the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries registered to attend. The workshop … Continued

Hathaway Gets $1.5 Million Grant to Study Heterochromatin’s Genetic Role

Nate Hathaway, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received a grant worth more than $1.5 million over five years from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to investigate the mechanism of HP1-mediated heterochromatin … Continued

Antibody-Biogel Partnership Can Be Stronger Defense than Previously Thought, Study Proves

Strong molecular bonds between antibodies and biological gels like mucus aren’t necessary to catch pathogens as was previously thought, according to new research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In fact, rapid and weak interactions between antibodies … Continued

$10 Billion in UNC Startup Revenue Delivers Economic Boost to NC

Falcon Therapeutics, a company spun out of Assistant Professor Shawn’s Hingtgen’s work treating brain cancer, is one of the ventures contributing to a rise in the economic value of startups connected with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, … Continued

UNC Reaches Milestone in Development of Kinase Chemogenomic Set

The Structural Genomics Consortium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partnership with the DiscoverX Corporation has reached the halfway point in developing a set of selective and potent inhibitors that will be made freely available to … Continued

Benhabbour Spin-Off Earns UNC KickStart Award

A company founded by Rahima Benhabbour, Ph.D., a faculty member at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received a KickStart award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to help create the first 3-D printed intravaginal ring … Continued

Wagoner joins Eshelman Institute to Encourage Commercialization

Former health-care executive Kay Wagoner, Ph.D., has joined the Eshelman Institute for Innovation as associate director for innovation and entrepreneurship. Wagoner is also life science executive in residence in the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Commercialization and Economic Development, an EIR … Continued

New Glioblastoma Treatment Successfully Tested with Human Cells

In a rapid-fire series of breakthroughs in just under a year, researchers at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy have made another stunning advance in the development of an effective glioblastoma treatment for a common and aggressive brain cancer. The … Continued

UNC Catalyst Initiative Aims to Create and Share Tools to Fight Rare Diseases

Freely giving researchers the tools and knowledge to tackle rare and orphaned diseases is the mission of UNC Catalyst, a new endeavor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill launched with a $2 million grant from the Eshelman Institute for … Continued

Research Project Will Translate Biomedical Data for Better Health Care, Research, Policy

A new project led by researchers at RENCI and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy aims to develop a biomedical data “translator” that will integrate, synthesize and interpret multiple sources of clinical and biomedical data to provide information to guide clinical … Continued

E(I) Lab Hosts Inaugural Final Presentations

The Carolina E(I) Lab, part of the Eshelman Institute for Innovation, concluded its pilot year by hosting final presentations from the inaugural cohort of student teams on Oct. 1, with the top four teams awarded monetary prizes. The presentations were … Continued

Young Innovators Program Immerses High Schoolers in Pharmacy, Pharma Sci

Triangle-area high school students who participated in the first summer of the Young Innovators Program at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill worked in research labs, thought critically about pharmacy practice, … Continued

Roy Zwahlen Joins School as Assistant Dean for Innovation and Strategy

Roy Zwahlen, J.D., has joined the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy as assistant dean for innovation and strategy. Zwahlen’s first responsibility is to assist the dean in formulating, interpreting and implementing policy at the School. “Because the UNC Eshelman School … Continued

Jerry Heneghan Gives Keynote at Serious Play Conference

Jerry Heneghan, M.B.A., delivered the keynote address at this year’s Serious Play Conference, hosted by the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School from July 25-28. Global thought leaders in the field of serious games and simulations descended on the University of North … Continued