News Highlights
2015
- UNC-Chapel Hill spinout secures $33 million investment to advance novel cancer treatments
- Potential pancreatic cancer treatment could increase life expectancy
- UNC researcher co-leads effort to map genomic changes in head and neck cancer
2014
- Kay Yow Cancer Fund awards $1 million research grant to UNC Lineberger
- UNC Lineberger members make major contribution to President’s Cancer Panel report on HPV vaccination
2013
- Promising new therapy in a smaller package
- UNC Lineberger discovery goes from the lab to the patient with FDA approval
- Prostate cancer treatment delays onset of pain and quality of life deterioration in men with metastatic prostate cancer
- UNC and Wake Forest awarded FDA, NIH grant to create Center for Regulatory Research on Tobacco Communications
2012
- Pox, patents, and pancreatic cancer vaccines (July 17, 2012)
- Chen presents prostate study abstract at American Society of Clinical Oncology symposium (February 1, 2012)
2011
- UNC scientists funded to study genome sequencing in clinical settings
- Viruses and cancer focus of Damania’s talk at National Academy of Sciences annual science symposium
- Protein associated with childhood cancer alters the structure of DNA, leading to cancer, UNC study shows
- Study links chemotherapy response to heritable factors
- UNC scientists offer first evidence of using biologically targeted nanoparticles to boost radiation therapy effects
- UNC cancer researcher awarded top V Scholar ranking
- UNC spin-off receives $3M Small Business Innovation Research grant
- UNC, NC community colleges partner to prevent cancer
- UNC Scientists Create "Excellent" Probe to Study Gene-Controlling Proteins
- UNC Clinical Trial Focuses on Finding the Right Tamoxifen Dose to Treat Breast Cancer