UNC Lineberger’s Sharon Campbell, PhD, MS, has been appointed the Gary F. Liebscher Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, effective Nov. 1.
The professorship was established to support a full-time member of the faculty in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics specializing in the science, research and/or cures of either cancer or neurodegenerative disorders. Campbell received the professorship in support of her research on small G-proteins that are implicated in lung, colorectal, pancreatic and other cancers.
Campbell received her master’s and doctoral degrees in chemistry from Yale University. After completing postdoctoral training in the departments of biochemistry and physics at Brandeis University, she became a research scientist at DuPont Central Research and Development. Her research efforts at DuPont led to solution structure determination of the Ras proto-oncoprotein by NMR spectroscopy In 1994, she left to DuPont-Merck to become a faculty member at UNC-Chapel Hill.