On December 1, 2015, Dr. Samantha Pattenden received word that she is the recipient of a $7500 IBM Junior Faculty Development Award. Congratulations!

We are pleased to announce that our very own Nate Hathaway has been named a 2016 recipient of the AACP New Investigator Award. Nate’s award centers around the “Development of Novel Inhibitors of Mammalian Heterochromatin Gene Repression.”  View all the … Read more

Lindsey James, Steve Headey (Monash University, Australia), Ken Pearce and Stephen Frye have been awarded a grant by the PharmAlliance Research Working Group and Deans to assist in funding preliminary data for the project “Discovery of Inhibitors for the Methyl-Lysine … Read more

  Ken Pearce and collaborator Channing Der (Pharmacology) received a UNC Lineberger Development Research Grant for their proposal, “A Cellular Screen Utilizing the Global Protein Stability Method to Identify Chemical Probes that Expedite the Myc-degradation Pathway.” (Jan. 2016)

The Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery welcomes Jichen Zhao to the Medicinal Chemistry Group and Gwonchan Yoon to the Computational Biophysics and Molecular Design Group. Jichen joins us from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, where he … Read more

Emily Hull-Ryde Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery Controlling the Mucus That Kills Pulmonary Patients 50 million Americans suffer from asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cystic fibrosis. A hallmark of these diseases is excessive mucus that can lead … Read more

  By now you have seen the “blizzard” on the bulletin board outside of Marsico 3004. Now we need to clear that “snow!” As part of our CBMC holiday effort, let’s give back by showering our local Ronald McDonald House … Read more

September 3, 2014 By David Etchison The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy has received a $3 million gift from philanthropist and pharmaceutical-industry executive Fred Eshelman. Eshelman’s gift will support the work of the School’s Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and … Read more

December 15, 2014 By David Etchison Scientists developing new drugs increasingly turn to massive online catalogs of prospective compounds to test. The trouble is that very few those chemical contenders even have the potential to be useful because of inaccuracies … Read more