June 29, 2020
AACR honors Spears for longstanding advocacy on behalf of cancer patients
Patty Spears, chair of UNC Lineberger's Patient Advocates for Research Council, was recognized for her longstanding advocacy on behalf of cancer patients.
Tag: honors and awards
June 24, 2020
AACR honors The Cancer Genome Atlas researchers with 2020 Team Science Awards
UNC Lineberger faculty have held leadership and team membership roles with The Cancer Genome Atlas, which was launched in 2006.
June 16, 2020
Bryant recognized as Forbeck Scholar
Kirsten Bryant, PhD, will attend the Forbeck Forum for a series of talks on “Emerging Strategies to Overcome Heterogeneous Resistance Mechanisms.”
June 8, 2020
Muss Receives ASCO’s Allen S. Lichter Visionary Leader Award for improving cancer care in older adults
The award recognizes an ASCO member whose vision, leadership and inspirational work has had a lasting impact on the field.
March 27, 2020
Rose receives NCI grant
UNC Lineberger's Tracy Rose, MD, MPH, received a National Cancer Institute K08 grant for her study on muscle-invasive urothelial cancer.
March 23, 2020
Breast Cancer Alliance awards Liu 2020 Young Investigator grant
The $125,000 award will support the Liu lab in investigating a specific therapeutic target in basal-like breast cancer, an aggressive breast cancer type.
February 24, 2020
Kumar recognized by Royal Society of Biology
Sunil Kumar, PhD, postdoctoral associate at UNC Lineberger, was elected as a member of the professional society The Royal Society of Biology.
February 11, 2020
Nobel laureate Sancar named recipient of 2019 Hyman L. Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award
UNC Lineberger's Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, has been named the 2019 recipient of the Hyman L. Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award.
February 5, 2020
Nyrop receives grant to study interventions for racial disparities in breast cancer survival
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.
January 14, 2020
Ray receives Young Investigator Award to support breast cancer research
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, …