News and Updates

March 2025. The lab receives a 2025 Expansion Award from Additional Ventures. Additional ventures is an organization dedicated to accelerating scientific discovery in the area of single ventricle heart disease.


February 2025. Read about the Edwards lab in the latest edition of Carolina Scientific Magazine! A special thanks to Sanjana Farmah! https://www.carolinascientific.org/current


February 2025. Matheus officially joins the lab as a Cell Biology and Physiology (CBP) graduate student!


January 2025. Whitney and Greg present at the Deuel Conference on Lipids!


December 2024. Lab Holiday Party at Osteria Georgi!


November 2024. Matheus Sadovsky joins the lab for Winter rotations!


November 2024. Whitney gives an invited presentation for the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics at the University of Virginia. 


October 2024. Savannah presents her research at the John K. Koeppe Biology Undergraduate Honors Symposium! Congrats Savannah!


October 2024. Whitney co-organizes the Triangle Regeneration Biology Symposium!


July 2024. Whitney is invited to present/ lab attends the at the FASEB Protein Lipidation Meeting.


July 2024. Khalid is accepted into the Biostatistics Masters program at Duke University! Congrats Khalid!!


July 2024. Raquel Gaither joins the lab as a UNC PREP (Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program) Scholar. Raquel is a joint student between the Edwards and Sarah Cohen’s Lab. Welcome Raquel!


June 2024. Kevin Chen joins the lab as a research technician! Welcome Kevin!


June 2024. David is selected for the Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) T32! Congrats David!


May 2024. Dimitrios Bikas joins the lab to conduct summer research as a part of the McAllister Heart Institutes’ Summer Undergraduate Mentoring & Meaningful Experiences in Research Program. Welcome Dimitri!


May 2024. Shenice is selected for the Cellular Systems and Integrative Physiology (CSIP) T32! Congrats Shenice!


April 2024. Lab get together at Namu!


April 2024. Shenice and David officially join the lab!

Shenice Harrison officially joins the lab as a Cell Biology and Physiology (CBP) graduate student!

David Cully officially joins the lab as a Genetics and Molecular Biology graduate student!


April 2024. Savannah presents her poster for BIOL 395 Undergraduate Research Symposium!


February 2024. We welcomed several new lab members at the start of the year!

David Cully and Jake Roetcisoender join the lab for Spring rotations!

Nina Kornchankul joins the lab as undergraduate researcher!


January 2024. Eleanor “Ellie” Hummel joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher! Welcome Ellie!


December 2023. Joint Lab Holiday Party!


August 2023. The Edwards lab welcome several new lab members !

Khalid Tejan-Sie joins the lab as our first research technician!

Shenice Harrison joins the lab as our first rotation student!

Savannah O’Brien joins the lab as our first undergraduate researcher!


March 2023. The Edwards Lab opens its doors!