September 6, 2019
Kirsten Bryant, PhD, is honored as one of three recipients of the Joseph S. Pagano Award, which recognizes outstanding work by the cancer center’s postdoctoral research associates.
September 5, 2019
Researchers know our social lives are important to our health, with a lack of relationships linked to heart disease, depression and risk of infection. And, as Y. Claire Yang, PhD, has found, how cancer patients view their social relationships could be a matter of life and death.
September 3, 2019
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has awarded a $971,484 Screen to Lead grant to University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers to launch an investigation of new drug compounds that would block enzymes that can become hyperactive in blood cancer cells when mutated. UNC Lineberger’s John Sondek, PhD, a professor in the UNC …
August 27, 2019
UNC Lineberger’s Bhishamjit S. Chera, MD, reported that reducing the intensity of radiation treatment for HPV-associated head and neck cancer produced a promising two-year progression-free survival rate and fewer side effects.
August 27, 2019
UNC Lineberger's Greg Wang, PhD, and colleagues discovered that a gene’s over-expression is key to the development and progression of multiple myeloma. They also demonstrated the potential benefit of an experimental treatment in laboratory models.
August 27, 2019
UNC Lineberger’s Ashley Leak Bryant, PhD, RN-BC, OCN, and clinical oncology nurse Jen Haley, MSN, RN, CNL, have a passion for developing future leaders of oncology nursing, not just in North Carolina, but globally. Bryant and Haley have been part of an effort to build the oncology nursing workforce in Malawi, a country in sub-Saharan …
August 26, 2019
UNC Lineberger’s Antonio Amelio, PhD, assistant professor in the UNC Adams School of Dentistry, was named the first place recipient of the 2019 IADR Joseph Lister Award for New Investigators. The award is managed by the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), and supported by Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc., makers of Listerine. The competition …
August 26, 2019
UNC Lineberger’s Antonio Amelio, PhD, assistant professor in the UNC Adams School of Dentistry, was co-corresponding author of a paper published in Scientific Reports along with Katsuhiro Uzawa of Chiba University in Japan. In the study, researchers used gene expression profiling and molecular validation to explore alternative mechanisms driving resistance to the drug cetuximab in …
August 26, 2019
UNC Lineberger’s Andrew Z. Wang, MD, an associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology, was corresponding author of a paper published in Advanced Science. The study reported on the development of a “nanopatch” to prevent postsurgical adhesion, which is when scar tissue joins two different tissues after surgery. They reported …
August 22, 2019
E-cigarette “vaping” is widely assumed to be safer than cigarette smoking, but scientists at the University of North Carolina have uncovered evidence suggesting that vaping promotes the same cellular responses found in smokers with emphysema. In a study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the UNC scientists found that the lungs of vapers …
