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Chemist Frank Leibfarth joins Popular Science’s Brilliant 10 of 2021
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Clemens named Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Convergent Science
Chris Clemens, director of the UNC Institute for Convergent Science, was named Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Convergent Science. He is only the third holder of the prestigious Chancellor’s Eminent Professorship.
UNC selected as NSF I-Corps site
The National Science Foundation names the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill an I-Corps site. The prestigious designation will position Carolina to deliver focused entrepreneurship training and customer discovery research as part of a larger national effort.
A convergent code
Many cancers and rare diseases have origins in our DNA. A team of UNC faculty from many scientific backgrounds are converging around the field of epigenetics to rewrite faulty instructions by delivering chemical compounds to our genome – to treat genetic diseases without changing the DNA itself.