Former SPIRE fellow Dr. Karin Pfennig was recently awarded the prestigious 2008 National Institutes of Health New Innovator Award. The award, one of 31 awarded this year, is for $1.5 million in direct costs for five years. Dr. Pfennig’s work … Read more

WHEN: June 8-11, 2008 WHERE: UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC UNC Chapel Hill’s SPIRE program hosted this year’s annual IRACDA Conference bringing together the eleven currently funded programs from across the country. IRACDA scholars, PIs, faculty, staff and NIGMS … Read more

(subject to alteration) Sunday June 8, 2008 3:00-6:00pm Check-in and registration 5:00-6:30pm Reception 6:30-9:00pm Dinner and Keynote Speaker Dr. Erich Jarvis – Neurobiology, Duke University Monday June 9, 2008 7:30-8:30am Breakfast 8:00-8:30 am Update on IRACDA, Introduction of new programs … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill’s SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program hosted noted neurobiologist Dr. Erich D. Jarvis on Friday, June 9 as the keynote speaker for the annual SPIRE Research Symposium. Currently in its seventh year, the event highlights the research accomplishments of SPIRE Scholars through … Read more

Fellows from the SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosted Dr. Joseph C. Dunbar, professor and chairman of the department of physiology of Wayne State University on Oct. 28, 2005. This was the … Read more