Amgen Mentors
Amgen Mentors
The following faculty members have agreed to support UNC-Chapel Hill Amgen Scholars Programs. Applicants can use the links below to identify potential faculty mentors for their application.
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Wubin Bai
Department: Applied Physical SciencesResearch Keywords: bioelectronics, biosensors, wearables, drug delivery devices, biotechnology
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Aysenil Belger
Department: Psychiatry and Psychology and NeuroscienceResearch Keywords: neuroimaging, cognition, adolescence, EEG, psychosis, anxiety, stress, risk for substance use.
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Rebecca Berlow
Department: Biochemistry and BiophysicsResearch Keywords: intrinsically disordered proteins, protein dynamics, transcriptional regulation
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Albert Bowers
Department: School of Pharmacy - Chemical Biology and Medicinal ChemistryResearch Keywords: chemical biology, drug discovery
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Russell Broaddus
Department: Pathology and Laboratory MedicineResearch Keywords: endometrial cancer molecular mechanisms of invasiveness, DNA mismatch repair, wnt/b-catenin signaling in cancer
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Christina Burch
Department: BiologyResearch Keywords: viral evolution, computational biology
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Sharon Campbell
Department: Biophysics and BiochemistryResearch Keywords: RAS inhibitors, tumorigenesis, RAS signaling, cell adhesion, cardiomyopathies, hybrid structural biology, biochemistry, signal transduction
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Kathleen Caron
Department: Cell Biology and PhysiologyResearch Keywords: cardiovascular physiology, G protein-coupled receptors, orphan receptors, migraine, lymphatics, mouse models of human disease
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Daniel Christoffel
Department: Psychology and NeuroscienceResearch Keywords: neural circuits, reward processing, feeding, synaptic plasticity, obesity, habits
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Jessica Cohen
Department: Psychology and NeuroscienceResearch Keywords: executive functioning, longitudinal development, ADHD, fMRI, network neuroscience
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Jean Cook
Department: Biochemistry and BiophysicsResearch Keywords: cell proliferation and DNA replication control
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Ming Ding
Department: Department of Emergency Medicine, School of MedicineResearch Keywords: Data science, multi-omics (genetics, lipidomics, and proteomics), population studies, cardiovascular disease
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Bob Duronio
Department: Biology, Genetics, iBGSResearch Keywords: Epigenetics, genomics, cell biology, developmental biology
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Michael Emanuele
Department: PharmacologyResearch Keywords: cancer proliferation, cell cycle, signaling, proteomics, ubiquitin
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Owen Fenton
Department: PharmacyResearch Keywords: mRNA therapeutics, lipid nanoparticles, drug delivery, former amgen scholar (UC Berkeley 2009)
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Kevin Frankowski
Department: Chemical Biology and Medicinal ChemistryResearch Keywords: early stage drug discovery, small molecule optimization, synthetic organic chemistry, therapeutic areas: metastatic cancer, substance use disorder, opioid-free treatment of chronic pain, traumatic brain injury
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Jimena Giudice
Department: Cell Biology and PhysiologyResearch Keywords: RNA processing, alternative splicing, heart, muscle, epigenetics
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Misty Good
Department: Pediatrics, Microbiology & ImmunologyResearch Keywords: intestinal development, epithelial cell biology, mucosal immunology, pathogenesis of necrotizing enterocolitis
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Lee Graves
Department: PharmacologyResearch Keywords: anticancer drugs, cancer metabolism, epigenetics, mitochondria
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Carlos Guardia
Department: Reproductive and Developmental Biology Laboratory, NIEHS (NIH)Research Keywords: autophagy, intracellular traffic, extracellular vesicles, hormone secretion, placenta development
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James Hagood
Department: PediatricsResearch Keywords: pulmonary fibrosis, lung biology, rare lung disease, antifibrotic drug development
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Indriati Hood Pishchany
Department: Pediatrics, Infectious DiseasesResearch Keywords: microbiome, women's health, preclinical models, live biotherapeutics
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Lindsey James
Department: Chemical Biology & Medicinal ChemistryResearch Keywords: epigenetics, chemical probe development, chromatin regulation, protein degradation
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Ilona Jaspers
Department: Pediatrics/Curriculum in Toxicology and Environmental MedicineResearch Keywords: health effects, inhaled chemicals, aerosolized chemicals, respiratory mucosa, lung biology
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Jeffrey Johnson
Department: ChemistryResearch Keywords: synthesis, catalysis, medicinal chemistry
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Mehmet Kesimer
Department: Pathology and Laboratory MedicineResearch Keywords: respiratory mucin/mucus biochemistry, biophysics, proteomics, lung and hypersecretory diseases, cystic fibrosis, chronic bronchitis, asthma, mucin glycoconjugates, tobacco and nicotine mechanistic/regulatory research, e-cigarettes
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Helen Lazear
Department: Microbiology & ImmunologyResearch Keywords: virology, viral pathogenesis, vector-borne diseases, congenital infections, skin infections
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Karin Leiderman
Department: Mathematics, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Computational Medicine Program, Blood Research CenterResearch Keywords: computational model, mathematical model, biochemical reactions, blood coagulation
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Pei Lim
Department: Diagnostic Sciences, Adams School of DentistryResearch Keywords: orofacial pain, temporomandibular disorders, trigeminal neuropathic pain, headaches
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Pengda Liu
Department: Biochemistry and BiophysicsResearch Keywords: cancer therapy, E3 ubiquitin ligase, kinase, cell signaling
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Daniel McKay
Department: Department of Biology, Department of GeneticsResearch Keywords: epigenetic gene regulation, developmental biology, genomics
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Adam Palmer
Department: Pharmacology, Computational Medicine ProgramResearch Keywords: drug combinations, cancer, systems biology, precision medicine
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Samantha Pattenden
Department: Chemical Biology and Medicinal ChemistryResearch Keywords: drug discovery, technology development, chromatin, transcription
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William Polacheck
Department: Biomedical Engineering; Cell Biology and PhysiologyResearch Keywords: microphysiological systems, organs-on-chip, vascular biology, cancer, computational modeling, mechanotransduction
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Jeremy Purvis
Department: Genetics; Computational MedicineResearch Keywords: systems biology, cell cycle, single-cell analysis, breast cancer
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Daniel Schrider
Department: Department of GeneticsResearch Keywords: evolution, population genetics, bioinformatics, computational biology, machine learning
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Zhenwei Song
Department: Gene Therapy Center, ESOPResearch Keywords: developing safer AAV gene therapy, evaluating AAV toxicity, spheroid culture, induced pluriportent stem cells
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Chrystal Starbird
Department: Biochemistry and BiophysicsResearch Keywords: structural biology, kinase inhibitor design, cellular signaling, receptor tyrosine kinases, cancer biology
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Brian Strahl
Department: Biochemistry and BiophysicsResearch Keywords: epigenetics, chromatin, histones, gene transcription
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Ageliki Tsagaratou
Department: Genetics, Microbiology & ImmunologyResearch Keywords: molecular immunology, T cell biology, epigenetics, cancer, genomics, proteomics, single-cell approaches
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Matthew Vogt
Department: Pediatric Infectious Diseases; Microbiology & ImmunologyResearch Keywords: human monoclonal antibodies, biologics, antivirals, enterovirus, picornavirus
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Jason Whitmire
Department: Genetics; Microbiology & ImmunologyResearch Keywords: immunology, T cell biology, host genetics, viral pathogenesis
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Gang Xi
Department: Medicine/UNC Kidney CenterResearch Keywords: protein post-translation modifications, cell signal transduction, autoimmune diseases
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Melinda Yates
Department: Pathology and Laboratory MedicineResearch Keywords: uterine cancer, genetics, pharmacology, hormones
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Senay Yitbarek
Department: BiologyResearch Keywords: host-microbe interactions, infectious disease, evolution, ecology
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Wei You
Department: ChemistryResearch Keywords: polymer-protein conjugate drug development
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Qisheng Zhang
Department: Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, PharmacologyResearch Keywords: drug discovery, chemical biology, lipid signaling