2016 - Page 14 of 24 - UNC Lineberger

Adam O. Goldstein, MD, MPH, is a University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member and a professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Family Medicine.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including UNC Lineberger member Adam Goldstein, MD, MPH, and East Carolina University reported in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that in all nine regions of the country, a majority of adults supported increasing the minimum legal age for tobacco product sales. They also found the most support for increasing the minimum age to 21 rather than to 20 or 19.

Chuck Perou, PhD, the May Goldman Shaw Distinguished Professor of Molecular Oncology and a member of UNC Lineberger, was a co-author of a study published in the journal Nature. Building on data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project, Perou and a multi-institutional team of scientists completed the first large-scale “proteogenomic” study of breast cancer, linking DNA mutations to protein signaling and helping pinpoint the genes that drive cancer.

Nobel Prize winner Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, a UNC Lineberger member and the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine was one of two distinguished professors to receive the O. Max Gardner Award, the highest faculty honor of the UNC Board of Governors.

Jennifer S. Smith, PhD, MPH, is director of the Cervical Cancer-Free Coalition at UNC Gillings, associate professor of epidemiology, and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

UNC Lineberger member Jennifer S. Smith, PhD, MPH, director of the Cervical Cancer-Free Coalition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and associate professor of epidemiology, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project to determine the effectiveness of a urine-based, cervical cancer screening tool under a Grand Challenges Exploration Grant, which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Melissa Troester, PhD, is a UNC Lineberger member and an associate professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Department of Epidemiology.

In the journal npj Breast Cancer, researchers led by UNC Lineberger member Melissa Troester, PhD, reported they identified a particular gene expression pattern in normal-appearing breast tissue around tumors that was linked to lower 10-year survival rates for women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer.

Hair stylist Andrea Saccone Snyder of Flow Beauty Project in Chapel Hill helped lead a webinar on identifying scalp melanoma.

More than 150 hair care professionals and health care providers from across North Carolina came together virtually for a webinar to discuss the topic of scalp melanoma. This event, which was broadcast live from Chapel Hill, was hosted by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and UNC Cancer Network.

George Souroullas, a member of the Sharpless Lab, recently had a paper, titled "An oncogenic Ezh2 mutation induces tumors through global redistribution of histone 3 lysine 27 trimethylation" published in Nature Medicine.

In her role as vice dean for research, Blossom Damania will be responsible for the direction and oversight of the School of Medicine’s research programs, centers, and resources.

UNC Lineberger member Blossom Damania, PhD, the co-director of the UNC Lineberger Global Oncology Program and the UNC Lineberger Virology Program, has been named the new vice dean for research at the UNC School of Medicine. She will replace Terry Magnuson, PhD, who has been named the vice chancellor for research at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Chad Ellis, PhD, Ben Major, PhD, and Anne-Marie Meyer, PhD, met with members of with members of the North Carolina congressional delegation in Washington, D.C., May 12

Chad Ellis, PhD, Ben Major, PhD, and Anne-Marie Meyer, PhD, traveled to the U.S. Capitol to meet with members of the North Carolina congressional delegation and explain the impact of National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute funding on the lives and well-being of people in North Carolina and the country.

Ben Major is a UNC Lineberger member and an assistant professor at the UNC Department of Cell Biology and Physiology.

M. Ben Major, PhD, was co-corresponding author of a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This study identified a new mechanism for activation of the Wnt signaling pathways in human disease and suggests a new approach to regulate it. Wnt signaling pathways play key roles in cancer development.

Yearly Archives: 2016

In all U.S. regions, broad support for increasing legal age of tobacco sales

Perou published in Nature

Sancar earns UNC Board of Governors’ highest faculty honor

UNC Lineberger researcher to study cervical cancer screening tool through Grand Challenges Explorations Grant

Researchers link gene expression patterns of normal tissue to breast cancer prognosis

C.A.R.E. Behind the Chair: Scalp melanoma webinar reaches hair stylists across North Carolina

Souroullas published in Nature Medicine

Damania named UNC School of Medicine’s Vice Dean for Research

UNC Lineberger members go to Washington to highlight importance of research funding

Major published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences