February 6, 2020
Graduate research assistant and cancer researcher Dan Michaud shares why he is part of the UNC Lineberger team for the Victory Ride to Cure Cancer.
February 5, 2020
Kirsten Nyrop, PhD, will lead a one-year qualitative research study on how clinicians can discuss weight management with breast cancer survivors in an effort to decrease racial disparities in obesity-related comorbidities that can affect survivorship.
February 4, 2020
An experimental blood test accurately detected HPV-linked head and neck cancer recurrence and confirmed when patients remained cancer-free.
February 3, 2020
The National Cancer Institute has named Satish Gopal, MD, MPH, director of the Center for Global Health. He assumes his new role today. Gopal is a physician-scientist who led the cancer program for UNC Project-Malawi, a research and care collaboration between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Malawi Ministry of Health, …
February 3, 2020
Tumors can create a hostile environment for cancer-fighting immune cells. In a new study, University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have developed a method for engineering immune cells to improve their survival and proliferation, even within a hostile tumor. Researchers led by UNC Lineberger’s Gianpietro Dotti, MD, report in the journal Nature …
January 30, 2020
A discovery by University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers could allow scientists to fine-tune genetically engineered immune cells to heighten their killing power against tumors or to decrease their activity level in the case of severe side effects. In a study published in Cancer Cell, researchers led by UNC Lineberger’s Gianpietro Dotti, …
January 24, 2020
Researchers at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center can illuminate cells from within using an embedded “biological flashlight,” and then use the light to control the cell’s function. In a proof-of-concept study published in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology, researchers describe an advance in “optogenetics,” a field in which scientists use light …
January 16, 2020
Comparison shopping for airfare, a TV, or a car can be straightforward online. The same cannot be said for checking what hospitals charge for a standard radiation treatment for prostate cancer, according to a report published in JAMA Oncology. Trevor Royce, MD, MPH, MS, of the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, is …
January 14, 2020
The Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, in conjunction with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, has presented a Young Investigator Award to UNC Lineberger’s Emily Ray, MD, MPH. Ray, who is an assistant professor of medicine in the division of hematology/oncology at UNC School of Medicine, will use the one year, …
January 14, 2020
An early-stage clinical study investigating a method of boosting the body’s defenses against two blood cancers found the drug pomalidomide could be safely added to conventional treatments, and help improve immune function. University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher Joshua Zeidner, MD, assistant professor in the UNC School of Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology, …
