December 16, 2019
In 2019, nearly 2 million Americans will receive a cancer diagnosis and more than 600,000 will die of cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. Cancer diagnoses and deaths are disproportionately high among people who live in rural counties, have a low socioeconomic status, and are members of underserved racial and ethnic groups. The Cancer …
December 16, 2019
The Lung Cancer Initiative of North Carolina (LCI) has awarded The Vicky Amidon Innovation in Lung Cancer Research Award to Hongwei Du, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. The award also was presented to Kenneth Adler, PhD, at the North Carolina State University College …
December 12, 2019
She ROCKS leadership presented a $200,000 check to UNC Lineberger to support ovarian cancer research. She ROCKS, an organization aimed at raising awareness and attention for ovarian cancer, raised the funds during their 2019 Wilmington and Triad luncheon events. She ROCKS has raised more than $500,000 for ovarian cancer research at UNC Lineberger since it …
December 11, 2019
UNC Lineberger faculty will be presenting study findings and discussing clinical and research developments at the 2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium on Dec. 10-14.
December 10, 2019
The UNC Lineberger annual scientific retreat drew staff and researchers to address a key initiative that seeks to engage the community in the center’s research, care and policy work to best meet the needs of cancer patients in North Carolina and beyond.
December 6, 2019
A University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher predicts an e-cigarette marketing trend could lead more people to try vaping products, including teens and younger people. In an industry watch update published in the journal Tobacco Control, Rebecca S. Williams, PhD, MHS, reported on the resurgence of cheap, disposable e-cigarettes that are easily …
December 6, 2019
University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers will be well-represented at the 61st American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, Dec. 7-10. ASH is the world’s largest professional society of hematologists and is dedicated to understanding, diagnosing, treating and preventing blood disorders. The society expects more than 20,000 hematologists and health …
December 5, 2019
A multidisciplinary team of investigators, including from the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, King’s College and the University of California, San Francisco, has discovered how mouth stem cells may uniquely be equipped to help improve healing in other parts of the body after disease or injury. The …
December 2, 2019
The North Carolina Biotechnology Center awarded $100,000 to UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Chad Pecot, MD, to study an experimental treatment that would silence a gene commonly mutated in cancer. Using a Nobel Prize-winning technology called RNA interference or RNAi, Pecot’s lab designed an investigational drug to shut down the mutated version of the KRAS …
December 1, 2019
The Web of Science Group’s 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list recognized 18 UNC Lineberger members for being among the world’s most influential researchers of the past decade. The listing is limited to researchers who have published multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1 percent by citations for field and year. Approximately only 6,200 …