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Website and servers up and running!

by Shawn Gomez | Mar 10, 2016 | Uncategorized

We are happy to say that FAAS, IAS and our lab website our now back up and running again! This was an amazingly painful process that first began with intermittent hardware failures that were leading to crashes of FAAS and IAS. As we were trying to get this fixed...

New award to develop a gut-on-a-chip!

by Shawn Gomez | Oct 6, 2015 | Uncategorized

With Nancy Allbritton, Scott Magness and Scott Bultman, we have just received a 5-year NIH Transformative Research Award for the development of a human intestinal simulacra! Essentially a “gut-on-a-chip”, this work will establish a novel platform that...

New effort to better understand and treat cerebral malaria

by Shawn Gomez | Oct 6, 2015 | Uncategorized

We are part of a team with Keith Burridge and Carla Cerami that have recently been funded by NIH to explore how malaria-infected red blood cells are taken up by the endothelial cells that line brain blood vessels. Understanding how this uptake may damage the...

Server Status

3/10/16: EVERYTHING UP AND RUNNING!!!
After many weeks of pain and agony, Matt has managed to get the FAAS and IAS servers up and running on new hardware! See News and Events for more info if you are interested.

2/18/16: UPDATE! - The department websites/network were hacked, which led to all websites/servers being down for the last 5 days or so. Our lab website is now back up and running and we are working on getting faas and ias back up and running on new servers asap. We think it will be running next week, but please check back here (or feel free to send an email - smgomez AT unc dot edu) for updates.