July 1, 2019
University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center presented the Graduate Fellow Awards in Basic Science to Megan Agajanian, Anthony Arceci and Salma Azam. The annual competitive award recognizes outstanding graduate students who are working in the laboratories of UNC Lineberger members, and are in their final year of training. Each award winner also receives …
July 1, 2019
UNC Lineberger’s Ashley Leak Bryant, PhD, RN-BC, OCN, assistant professor in the UNC School of Nursing, was first and corresponding author of a paper published in the journal Supportive Care in Cancer. UNC Lineberger’s William A. Wood, MD, associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology, was the senior author. In the …
July 1, 2019
UNC Lineberger’s Satish Gopal, MD, MPH, was a co-author of a viewpoint published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that discussed the benefits of global oncology initiatives. The article outlined current initiatives in global oncology, and also highlighted opportunities for this work to drive cancer research forward, including to improve screening, diagnosis and …
June 28, 2019
David Hesmer is a volunteer in a UNC Lineberger lab, helping to further the study of glioblastoma, something he knows a lot about: he was treated for glioblastoma at the N.C. Cancer Hospital.
June 26, 2019
University of North Carolina’s Kate Westmoreland, MD, has been amazed and excited by a surge of support for her work to improve treatment for adolescents and young adults with Burkitt lymphoma in Malawi, a country in Sub-Saharan Africa where this type of blood cancer is more common and deadly than in the United States. Westmoreland …
June 24, 2019
Bill and Nancy Graham of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, have donated $1 million to support breast cancer research and care at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Grahams established the Bill and Nancy Graham Breast Cancer Research Fund to provide the cancer center’s leadership with unrestricted funding, which enables them to make investments where the …
June 21, 2019
Efforts to control health care costs in the United States often focus on the listed prescription drug prices, but a perspective published by the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that unregulated pharmacy benefit manager practices also may contribute to escalating expenses. Researchers from the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern …
June 20, 2019
In an advance for medical imaging, scientists from University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a method for creating radioactive tracers to better track pharmaceuticals in the body as well as image diseases, such as cancer, and other medical conditions. The researchers reported in the journal Science a method for creating tracers …
June 19, 2019
For Matthew Milowsky, MD, the George Gabriel and Frances Gable Villere Distinguished Professor of Bladder and Genitourinary Cancer Research, the why of genitourinary cancers is just as important to him as the how and what. As a former philosophy major, it’s natural that the questions behind these cancers are what drive the clinician and researcher to explore new methods to treat and care for patients.
June 18, 2019
The UNC School of Medicine has selected UNC Lineberger’s Arlene Chung, MD, MHA, MMCi, assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics, as one of two recipients of the Jefferson Pilot Award, along with Jiandong Liu, PhD, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine. Each will receive $5,000 for each of the next four years to support …
