March 14, 2017
UNC Lineberger members Channing Der, PhD, the Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Adrienne Cox, PhD, associate professor in radiation oncology and pharmacology, were awarded $10,000 by the Blue Ribbon Run, a Wilmington-based fundraiser for colorectal cancer research.
March 13, 2017
In a study published in journal Nature Immunology, researchers led by UNC Lineberger member Jenny P.Y. Ting, PhD, described how inflammation can go unchecked in the absence of a certain inflammation inhibitor called NLRP12. In a harmful feedback loop, this inflammation can upset the balance of bacteria living in the gut. Beneficial bacteria may be the key to reversing inflammation in the absence of this key regulator.
March 13, 2017
UNC Lineberger's Shelton Earp, MD, director of UNC Cancer Care and the Lineberger Professor of Cancer Research, and Jenny P.Y. Ting, PhD, the William Rand Kenan Professor of Genetics, have been honored with the Hyman L. Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award.
March 8, 2017
Stephanie Wheeler, PhD, MPH, recognized for her research into cancer outcomes, with particular emphasis upon understanding and reducing health disparities.
March 1, 2017
JAMA Oncology paper examined whether patients were willing to report their symptoms in multi-center clinical trials.
February 28, 2017
UNC Lineberger, with its U.S. FDA-approved Good Manufacturing Practices, or “clean,” facility, is one of only a select academic centers in the United States with the capability to genetically modify patient immune cells for clinical use. This makes it possible for people who live in the Southeastern U.S. to stay closer to home to undergo cellular immunotherapy treatment.
February 28, 2017
There are two categories of awards offered this spring for the UNC Lineberger Developmental Funding Award: Pilot Awards of up to $50,000 for one-year projects involving one principal investigator, and Stimulus Awards of up to $100,000 per year for one or two years for projects that enhance our scientific understanding of cancer basic mechanisms or clinical and public health practice.
February 28, 2017
Using dye to map cancer metastases, UNC led a large-scale study to help patients avoid complications from surgery. UNC Lineberger members Anastasia Ivanova, PhD, and John Boggess, MD, were co-authors.
February 28, 2017
Jeannette Bensen, PhD, and her colleagues will study whether there are differences in the financial impact of prostate cancer between African American and Caucasian men. They also will evaluate the influence this may have on the quality of life of both the survivor and their caregiver.
February 22, 2017
UNC Lineberger researchers Hy Muss, MD, Shlomit Strulov Shachar, MD, and colleagues report in the journal Clinical Cancer Research that a measure of muscle mass and muscle quality developed at UNC could potentially help doctors better identify patients at high risk for side effects that could require hospitalization.
