May 9, 2017
UNC's Running RAScals participated in this year’s PanCAN PurpleStride run. The team, organized by Kirsten Bryant, PhD, consisted of 76 members and raised over $13,000 to support the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.
March 13, 2017
UNC Lineberger's Shelton Earp, MD, director of UNC Cancer Care and the Lineberger Professor of Cancer Research, and Jenny P.Y. Ting, PhD, the William Rand Kenan Professor of Genetics, have been honored with the Hyman L. Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award.
January 22, 2017
August 8, 2016
UNC Lineberger researcher and postdoctoral fellow Kirsten Bryant, PhD, has been awarded a prestigious grant by the American Association for Cancer Research and the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.
May 9, 2016
In the lab of Channing Der, PhD, researchers believe they have found a promising strategy to target a type of pancreatic cancer that is notoriously resistant to treatment—pancreatic cancer that has a mutation in a gene called KRAS.
March 10, 2016
Kirsten Bryant, PhD, and Channing Der, PhD, shared personal stories of why they're driven to fight pancreatic cancer at the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s PurpleStride Leadership Breakfast in Durham, NC.
February 23, 2016
Albert S. Baldwin, UNC Lineberger’s associate director of basic research and the William Rand Kenan Professor of Biology at UNC, will receive nearly $5.9 million across seven years as a recipient of the National Cancer Institute's Outstanding Investigator Award. He is the second UNC Lineberger researcher to receive the award behind Stephen Hursting, who is studying the link between obesity and cancer.
January 7, 2016
In the journal Cancer Cell, UNC Lineberger researchers report findings of a promising strategy to treat KRAS-mutant pancreatic cancers.
October 13, 2015
The five-year 2015 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network-AACR Pathway to Leadership grant was awarded to Kirsten Bryant, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at UNC Lineberger, for her project titled "Exploring pancreatic cancer cell metabolism for therapeutic gain."
July 15, 2015
Kemi Doll, MD, Aaron Falchook, MD, and Benjamin Vincent, MD, were honored as the recipients of the 2015 Pope Clinical Fellows Awards.
