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UNC radiation therapy faculty and student win national writing award

July 19, 2011
Chapel Hill, NC - Robert Adams, EdD, RT, CMD; Bahjat Qaqish, MD, PhD; and Jessica A. Church, BS, RT, all from UNC, and Kimberly L. MetCalf, EdD, RT, MR, from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions are the winners of the 2010-2011 Jean I. Widger Distinguished Author Award...

Welcome to this year’s hematology/oncology fellows

July 14, 2011
Six new fellows have joined the Division of Hematology/Oncology.

New Fellowship Program in Psychosomatic Medicine Opens at UNC School of Medicine

July 13, 2011
Chapel Hill - A new fellowship training program in psychosomatic medicine is beginning at UNC, a partnership of the UNC School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and the UNC Comprehensive Cancer Support Program, part of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Channing Der and Yue Xiong receive 2011 Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award

July 12, 2011
Chapel Hill - Channing Der, PhD, Kenan Professor of Pharmacology, and Yue Xiong, PhD, Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, have been awarded the fourth annual Hyman L. Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award in recognition of their accomplishments in cancer research. Both are members of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Obesity epidemic may reduce life expectancy

July 11, 2011
American life expectancies, which have climbed steadily for almost a century, may drop in years to come as the obesity epidemic progresses.

Second round of Health-e-NC pilot projects funded statewide

July 6, 2011
Technology used to promote better health and cancer prevention statewide

UNC physician/scientist authors an essay for the Journal of the American Medical Association

July 1, 2011
Katie Reeder-Hayes, MD, MBA, authored a commentary in the June 8, 2011 Journal of the American Medical Association for the “A Piece of My Mind” column. In her commentary, titled “Way Back When,” she discusses how she has changed since becoming a physician and the challenges and rewards her career...

The Cancer Genome Atlas completes detailed ovarian cancer analysis

June 30, 2011
UNC completes miRNA and array analysis

UNC Lineberger associate director chairs national bone marrow group advisory committee

June 30, 2011
Chapel Hill - Thomas Shea, MD, will serve a two-year term as chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR). He was previously elected as chair-elect. The Advisory Committee establishes policy for, and provides scientific direction to the CIBMTR.

Breland honored with Honda Inspiration Award

June 29, 2011
Recent UNC-Chapel Hill graduate and former UNC Women’s Basketball player Jessica Breland – who now plays in the WNBA for the New York Liberty – was honored with the the 23rd annual Honda Inspiration Award.