February 15, 2019
Researchers led by UNC Lineberger’s David Ollila, MD, FACS, the James H. and Jesse E. Millis Distinguished Professor in the UNC School of Medicine Division of Surgical Oncology, reviewed the results for 80 adult metastatic melanoma patients treated with talimogene laherparepvec, or TVEC. Injection of TVEC effectively treated almost 40 percent of patients with tumors …
February 15, 2019
While Marie Wood felt like she had just been to war, still, she was happy. After a diagnosis of ovarian cancer, surgery and six months of chemotherapy, the Greensboro resident, mother of four and successful interior designer learned her cancer was in remission. Life was good. She had just wrapped up the holidays with her …
February 11, 2019
UNC Lineberger awarded grants to 14 scientists and research teams in the fall grant awards cycle. Applications for the next round of funding will be due March 15.
February 6, 2019
The United States Agency for International Development, in partnership with the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, will fund two new programs to prevent cervical cancer in sub-Saharan Africa, including a project led by UNC scientists and physicians in Malawi.
February 5, 2019
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published the third most number of scientific publications about electronic cigarettes between 2003-2018, according to a study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The paper also cited UNC Lineberger's Kurt Ribisl, PhD, as one of the most prolific e-cigarette scientists.
February 4, 2019
UNC Lineberger's Sam Cykert, MD, and Geni Eng, DrPH, report that a combination of interventions reduced disparities in treatment and outcomes for black patients with early-stage lung cancer.
January 31, 2019
University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers and collaborators have discovered how a cellular signal that’s abnormally hyperactive in cancer can be deactivated. In the journal Cell Reports, UNC Lineberger’s M. Ben Major, PhD, and colleagues published a paper on how the WNT signaling pathway is regulated. WNT proteins increase tumor onset, growth …
January 30, 2019
The multi-institutional team, which is co-led by UNC Lineberger's Gianpietro Dotti, MD, and includes six UNC Lineberger researchers, will focus on developing chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapies to recognize and attack T-cell lymphoma, a group of rare cancers of the blood and immune system.
January 29, 2019
University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center scientist Antonio “Tony” Amelio, PhD, is not necessarily looking for the “smoking gun” of cancer biology, or one single cause of cancer. Instead, he’s looking into how a family of newly described proteins involved in the cellular stress response can cause a complex ripple effect of changes …
January 24, 2019
In preliminary findings presented at the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, researchers led by UNC Lineberger's Charles M. Perou, PhD, and Susana Garcia-Recio, PhD, reported they found increased expression of the gene FGFR4 in metastatic breast cancer tumors.
