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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Triad Golfers Against Cancer has awarded one-year research grants to two physician-scientists at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Stefanie Sarantopoulos, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, received $25,000 to study ways of improving survival in patients with leukemia and lymphoma. Andrew Wang, MD, assistant professor of...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Jon Serody, MD, Elizabeth Thomas Professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology and UNC Lineberger member, is featured in the article “T-cell Mutiny” published in the Winter 2010 issue of endeavors magazine. The article was written by Meagen Voss, a doctoral student in neuroscience in...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The University of North Carolina women’s gymnastics team will hold its annual Blue & Pink meet on February 14 at newly-renovated Carmichael Auditorium. The Tar Heels will take on the University of Maryland in a special meet that includes a cancer awareness health fair, benefiting the...

Study from The Cancer Genome Atlas an important step towards personalized therapy

More than 300 people attended the 2010 Lineberger Club event on Saturday, January 16. The event recognizes Lineberger supporters who contribute $1000 or more annually to UNC Lineberger’s cancer treatment, research and prevention programs. The highlight of the event was remarks by patient Dayton Cole, from Boone, NC. Dayton shared...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The director of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center has been honored with the General Alumni Association’s (GAA) Faculty Service Award. Dr. H. Shelton “Shelley” Earp III ’70 (MD) also is a professor of pharmacology and medicine and Lineberger Professor of Cancer Research. He also earned...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The DNA contained within each of our cells is exactly the same, yet different types of cells – skin cells, heart cells, brain cells – perform very different functions. The ultimate fate of these cells is encoded not just in the DNA, but in a specific...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The UNC Center for Aging and Health/Division of Geriatric Medicine has received a second four-year $1.5 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to develop a program entitled “Next Steps in Physicians’ Training in Geriatrics.” This grant will expand geriatrics training to five medical specialties...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Bacteria can swim, propelling themselves through fluids using a whip-like extension called a flaggella. They can also walk, strolling along solid surfaces using little fibrous legs called pili. It is this motility that enable some pathogenic bacteria to establish the infections – such as meningitis –...

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center a Beneficiary