51st Annual UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Trainee Research Day

Our 51st Annual UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Trainee Research Day provides an opportunity for cancer center trainees to present their scientific findings to an audience of peers and faculty. This event is coordinated by the UNC Lineberger Cancer Research Training & Education Coordination (CRTEC) program.

The schedule includes two invited honored alumni speakers, two sessions of postdoctoral talks selected from submitted abstracts, breakout sessions, and poster session. This year’s event will be held on October 6, 2026, at The Friday Conference Center. If you have any questions, please contact the CRTEC Team by emailing us: lccctraining@unc.edu

Keynote Speakers

Jake Stein, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Stein is a medical oncologist with a clinical focus on caring for patients with sarcomas. These are rare and heterogeneous cancers that can affect patients of all ages, including adolescents and young adults. Dr. Stein strives to always listen closely to patients and address their concerns, while collaborating with colleagues across disciplines and bringing the highest-quality, most cutting-edge medical science to achieve the best possible outcomes for my patients. Dr. Stein is also a health services researcher, and work focuses on how to optimize care delivery systems to improve the quality of cancer care for all patients. Current projects involve evaluating how to improve the delivery of precision medicine for patients with advanced cancer, developing predictive models to determine what patients are at high risk for complications from cancer therapy and how to reduce that risk, and how to make sarcoma care for young people better aligned with their goals and needs.

Jenny Spencer, PhD is an Assistant Professor in Population Health and Internal Medicine at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work uses econometric and decision science methods to improve equity in cancer screening and prevention. Dr. Spencer completed her masters and PhD training at the University of North Carolina where she was a predoctoral fellow in the Cancer Care Quality Training Program. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health she began working with the NCI’s CISNET cervical cancer modeling collaborative. After starting at the Dell Medical School in 2021, she has expanded her cervical cancer work to include exploring patterns breast and cervical cancer screening by sexual orientation through an NIH K01 award and modeling the statewide impact of colorectal cancer screening outreach through work funded by the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT).

Registration is now closed. On-site registration available.