May 6, 2019
OncLive has named UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Charles M. Perou, PhD, as a 2019 Giant of Cancer Care. Perou is being honored for his scientific achievements that have advanced the field of cancer diagnostics and is one of 15 cancer clinicians and scientists who will be recognized at the Giants of Cancer Care Winners’ …
May 2, 2019
UNC Lineberger’s William Marzluff, PhD, William Rand Kenan Professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, will collaborate with Research Triangle Park-based Cell Microsystems in an effort to speed the use of CRISPR technology in lab experiments. The company was awarded two federal Small Business Innovation and Research awards totaling $1.9 …
April 23, 2019
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member Ronald Chen, MD, MPH, associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology, was elected as a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, one of the nation’s oldest and most respected medical honor societies. He was formally inducted into the society during the joint meeting of the Association …
April 22, 2019
UNC Lineberger faculty were among the several UNC School of Nursing presenters at the Oncology Nursing Society’s 44th Annual Congress in Anaheim, California, April 11-15. Ashley Bryant, PhD, RN-BC, OCN, Deborah Mayer, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN, and Lixin Song, PhD, RN, FAAN, along with UNC School of Nursing’s Rachel Hirschey, PhD, RN, Ahrang Jung, PhD, RN, and …
April 18, 2019
A study led by University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers examined the impact of electronic health records (EHR) on physician work load and performance in managing critical or abnormal test results. Lukasz M. Mazur, PhD, an associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology, and UNC Lineberger’s Lawrence …
April 18, 2019
Bryan L. Roth, MD, PhD, the Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor of Protein Therapeutics and Translational Proteomics in the Department of Pharmacology in the UNC School of Medicine, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Roth, a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the UNC Neuroscience Center, was one …
April 17, 2019
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a grant for more than $2.2 million across five years to UNC Lineberger’s Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta, PhD, to support her research into the immune response in pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancers.
April 17, 2019
The American Society for Investigative Pathology has named UNC Lineberger member Qing Zhang, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, as the recipient of the 2020 ASIP Cotran Early Career Investigator Award. This award recognizes individuals in the early stages of their career who have demonstrated excellence as investigators and have …
March 26, 2019
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has inducted University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member Andrew Wang, MD, into its College of Fellows. Wang, an associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology and director of clinical and translational research in the department, and 156 other …
March 20, 2019
UNC Lineberger’s Andrew Z. Wang, MD, and his collaborators were awarded a $1.5 million, four-year grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study the use of nanoparticles to prevent a complication of surgery. In addition to Wang, Melina R. Kibbe, MD, the Colin G. Thomas Jr. Distinguished Professor and Chair of the …
