August 31, 2020
Katherine Hoadley, PhD, is the 2020 recipient of the Marion R. Wright Award for Scientific Excellence. Hoadley is the first to receive the award.
June 24, 2020
UNC Lineberger faculty have held leadership and team membership roles with The Cancer Genome Atlas, which was launched in 2006.
August 3, 2015
Each month, the technology company IBM releases a podcast called “Wild Ducks,” focusing on world-changing people and ideas. For the month of July, IBM came to UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center to learn about personalized medicine and meet their newest Wild Duck – Ned Sharpless, MD, UNC Lineberger Director and Wellcome Distinguished Professor in Cancer Research at the UNC School of Medicine.
May 5, 2015
UNC Lineberger will be one of more than a dozen leading cancer centers tapping IBM's Watson to accelerate DNA analysis and inform personalized treatment options for patients. The project is part of IBM’s broader Watson Health initiative to advance patient-centered care and improve health.
March 16, 2015
Charles M. Perou, PhD, professor of genetics and pathology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the basic science leader of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Breast Cancer Research Program, has been acknowledged as a health care innovator by the Triangle Business Journal. During an awards ceremony on Thursday, Perou was selected from a pool of candidates as the finalist in the 2015 TBJ Health Care Heroes – Innovator category.
February 19, 2015
Hepatitis C virus infection is a common cause of liver disease and of liver cancer in the United States. Through a new study that explores one aspect of how the virus hijacks host cell machinery to replicate itself, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have gained insight into the workings of a potential drug target for hepatitis C.
January 28, 2015
A study co-led by a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher has identified genomic changes in head and neck cancers linked to the sexually transmitted disease HPV -- the latest finding of a collaborative scientific effort designed to map out the genomic changes driving cancer.
January 20, 2015
Research led by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center members Katherine Hoadley, PhD, research assistant professor in genetics and Chuck Perou, PhD, professor of genetics and pathology, was selected by the American Society of Clinical Oncology for inclusion in Clinical Cancer Advances 2015, the Society’s annual review of progress against cancer and emerging trends in the field. The study, a comprehensive tumor genetic analysis which revealed a new way of classifying cancers, is featured as one of the year’s major achievements in clinical cancer research and care.
August 7, 2014
Researchers with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network have completed the largest, most diverse tumor genetic analysis ever conducted, revealing a new approach to classifying cancers. The work, led by researchers at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other TCGA sites, not only revamps traditional ideas of how cancers are diagnosed and treated, but could also have a profound impact on the future landscape of drug development.
December 17, 2013
James Evans, MD, PhD, published his thoughts on the 23andMe genetic testing controversy in the Dec. 13 issue of The Cancer Letter.
