May 3, 2018
UNC Lineberger's Jack Griffith, PhD, has conducted extensive research utilizing high-resolution electron microscopy to visualize protein-DNA interactions. He was elected into the National Academy of the Sciences, which is considered one of the highest scientific honors in the United States.
February 12, 2018
A study from the lab of UNC Lineberger's Dirk Dittmer, PhD, found that HIV sends out a protein called Nef in cellular packages called exosomes.
June 24, 2016
UNC Lineberger researcher Blossom Damania, PhD, postdoctoral researcher Aadra Bhatt, PhD, and colleagues have discovered a slick trick a virus uses to spur cancerous cell growth in its host: the virus initiates a signal that mimics one of the host cell’s own signals.
![Malawian pathologist George Liomba was recruited to work with UNC-Project Malawi in Lilongwe. [Photo Credit: Dirk Dittmer, PhD, a UNC Lineberger member and co-director of the UNC Lineberger Global Oncology Program]](https://unclineberger.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/867/2018/10/filling-the-gap-image2-600x400.jpeg)
August 31, 2015
In Malawi’s capital city, one pathologist has played an important role in speeding cancer diagnoses and supporting cancer research.
July 21, 2015
In a study published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, UNC Lineberger researchers report findings of how Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, or KSHV, can inhibit a signaling pathway involved in triggering part of the early immune response to the virus.
July 14, 2015
Blossom Damania, PhD, studies how viral cancers develop, and also directs the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Global Oncology Program.
June 9, 2015
Jenny Ting, PhD, was senior author of a study that found a potential therapeutic strategy for reducing the body's typically damaging inflammatory response to severe dengue virus infection.
