News from Lineberger Archives - Page 53 of 74

Dan Hollern, PhD, and Charles Perou, PhD

University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have discovered a promising method to identify aggressive breast cancer tumors that will respond to drugs that unleash the immune system against cancer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved a treatment that combines an immunotherapy drug and chemotherapy for triple negative breast cancer, but …

Brian Strahl, PhD, is a UNC Lineberger member and professor of biochemistry and biophysics in the UNC School of Medicine

Scientists from the UNC School of Medicine and Stanford University have uncovered what may be a fundamental biological mechanism that helps organisms adapt to rapid changes to nutrients in their environments. In a study published in Molecular Cell, the scientists found that a chemical mark on histones – a key protein involved in the function of our …

A University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center-led research team has used genetic insights about head and neck cancers linked to HPV, or human papillomavirus, to improve laboratory tools for studying the disease. Leveraging their discovery that different subtypes of HPV-linked oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma exist based on the expression levels of two different …

The NCI has awarded more than $1.68 million across five years to UNC Lineberger’s Lindsey James, PhD, to study a gene that can control how other genes are expressed in cells, and when dysregulated, can lead to cancer.

L’Oréal USA announced the recipients of the 2019 For Women in Science (FWIS) Fellowship, including Christine Roden, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate at UNC Lineberger. L’Oréal USA annually awards five female postdoctoral scientists grants of $60,000 each to advance their research. This is the 16th year of the program, which to date has recognized 80 …

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers found in a review of research that non-menthol flavors attract youth and adults to use e-cigarettes and the use of flavored e-cigarettes contributes to multiple pathways linked to higher e-cigarette use among youth.

UNC Lineberger's Timothy Gershon, MD, PhD, and Jennifer Ocasio, PhD, who identified a possible approach to blocking medulloblastoma brain tumor

UNC Lineberger researchers have identified a potential approach to stop the growth of medulloblastoma, the most common type of brain tumor in children.

The National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center has awarded Matthew Painschab, MD, a five-year International Research Scientist Development Award to lead research into improving treatment for multicentric Castleman disease in Malawi. Working through the University of North Carolina Project-Malawi, a collaboration between UNC-Chapel Hill and the Malawi Ministry of Health, Painschab will lead a …

UNC Lineberger’s Wesley Legant, PhD, assistant professor in the UNC-NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Pharmacology, received a prestigious Packard Fellowship to enhance his research on new kinds of microscopy techniques to further biomedical discoveries at the UNC School of Medicine and beyond. Legant was one of 22 early-career scientists …

A dense web of tissue can surround pancreatic cancer tumors, impeding treatment and sometimes acting as a barrier to the tumor’s spread. Jen Jen Yeh, MD, and colleagues have published a paper in Nature Communications that demonstrates their novel approach to distinguishing cancerous tissue from the surrounding connective tissue and stromal cells as well as from immune cells in the tumor’s environment in order to drive personalized treatment strategies.

Category: News from Lineberger

Findings could help identify which aggressive breast cancers will respond to immune treatments

Feast or famine: Scientists find key bio ‘switch’ that helps cells adapt

Researchers use genetic insights to develop model for HPV-linked head and neck cancer

NCI awards $1.68M grant to James to study gene important to childhood cancers

L’Oréal USA names Roden recipient of 2019 For Women in Science Fellowship

E-cigarette flavors decrease perception of harm among youth

Researchers identify possible approach to block medulloblastoma growth

NIH awards grant to Painschab to improve multicentric Castleman disease treatment in Malawi

Legant Named 2019 Packard Fellow

Researchers develop method for separating tissue types in tumor samples