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 19, 2019
The idea was simple: find the faulty signals that drive cancerous growth in cells, and block them. But what University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher Pengda Liu, PhD, has discovered, when it comes to cancer, even straightforward concepts can become complicated. “When you find a target and inhibit it, you find the …
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
A study by University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers helps explain how tumors recruit blood vessels that provide fuel for their growth as well as an avenue for the tumors to spread. In the journal Oncogene, the researchers also reported they built on these findings to uncover a potential treatment strategy to …
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 …
April 12, 2019
Kristy Richards, PhD, MD, who was on our faculty of medicine and a member of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center from 2007-2015, passed away from breast cancer surrounded by her family and friends on March 30, 2019. Richards was known for her excellence in both the clinic and the laboratory. Following her training in genetics …
April 11, 2019
University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers presented innovative new strategies for using tiny particles – particles the size of a DNA molecule or the width of a human hair – to boost cancer treatment as part of the Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence/National Cancer Institute site visit on Tuesday. The researchers, …
April 4, 2019
Paul Godley, MD, PhD, MPP, UNC School of Medicine’s Vice Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, passed away Sunday, March 31. “All of us at the UNC School of Medicine deeply respected Paul, and he will be greatly missed by everyone fortunate enough to have known him,” said Wesley Burks, MD, Dean of the UNC School …
