From a delicious breakfast, to some serious white elephant steals/battles, to fun arts and games! This was a fun way to end a very productive year! 🙂

#CDC#BenhabbourLab#CROI 2025! Congratulations to the Benhabbour Lab and our amazing collaborators at the CDC and UNC for having all three abstracts accepted at CROI for oral and poster presentations! Look forward to sharing our exciting new findings at San Fransisco!

Congrats Jasmine for receiving the CROI New Investigator Award to attend and present her work in San Fransisco! Very exciting work!!

The 2024 Potluck had a plethora of different dishes – from Sweet Potato Casserole (Trinity) to Thy’s Sushi Bake! Wishing everyone the best thanksgiving from the Benhabbour lab!

Happy Halloween from the Benhabbour lab. Congratulations to Kayla and Nanditha for winning our costume contest!

Rahima visits the CDC campus!

Thy is a rising 4th year in our lab. Thy enjoyed sharing her research in Lima, Peru!

Earlier this summer, Chancellor Lee Roberts visited our lab to learn more about our research. It was truly a pleasure!

We wish you much success on your next adventure!

Thy will present her work at the 5th HIV Research for Prevention Conference in Lima, Peru this October! Congratulations Thy!

Pooja Shah will pursue her doctorate degree at NYU in the biomedical engineering department! Ava Cohen will start her new position at AstraZeneca! We could not be more proud! Congratulations to you both!

The Nature Communications paper, Ultra-Long Acting in-situ forming implants with Cabotegravir protect female macaques against rectal SHIV infection, has been selected for nomination for the CDC’s Shepard Science Award. This paper was nominated to represent the Division of HIV Prevention. … Read more

Learn more about the male birth control initiative between the Benhabbour Lab and Eppin Pharma here.

Sarah Anne will be presenting her work at the Controlled Release Society (CRS) 2024 Annual meeting and expo in Bologna Italy. Congratulations Sarah Anne!

Congratulations to both Thy Le and Sarah Anne Howard for being selected for an oral presentation at the Controlled Release Society 2024 Conference in Bologna, Italy. Thy Le also was awarded a travel grant for this conference. Sarah Anne Howard … Read more

Thy will be presenting her work at the Controlled Release Society (CRS) 2024 Annual meeting and expo in Bologna Italy. Congratulations Thy!

Thy Le has volunteered her time to support the UNC Chancellor’s Science Scholars Program, which is dedicated to increasing STEM involvement among historically underrepresented groups. By helping to recruit and interview future scholars, as well as attending and presenting at several … Read more

Congratulations to Jasmine King on being awarded a 50K BME Instrumentation grant. This grant will be used for purchasing a brand new Quantstudio 7 Pro RT-PCR Instrument from ThermoFisher! Congratulations, Jasmine!

Jasmine has fully transitioned from a post-doctoral researcher to a research faculty member in the Benhabbour lab. Jasmine is immensely involved in the lab – through collaborations through the BME department, various other universities and outside collaborators. Jasmine has published … Read more

For people at high risk of contracting HIV, missing doses of their daily HIV prevention pills can have big consequences. In some cases, missing a pill can lead to lack of protection against the virus. Since 2017, the lab of … Read more

New project aims to provide long-lasting HIV treatment and/or protection from a single injection. Angela Wahl, PhD, Rahima Benhabbour, PhD, and Martina Kovarova, PhD, are collaborating to lead the work, which is funded by a $3.8-million NIH grant.

Rahima Benhabbour is a woman on an amazing mission. Not only is she a professor at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy University department in Chapel Hill, North Carolina she’s also founder of AnnelleO, a 3D printed intravaginal ring.

Three faculty-led startups at UNC-Chapel Hill are moving closer to commercialization after receiving more than $89,000 in funding from the university’s KickStart Venture Services program.