July 21, 2015
UNC Hospitals is once again nationally ranked in cancer, taking the 32nd spot in the country in a U.S. News & World Report ranking of over 900 hospitals across the country. The latest ranking is up from 38th in 2014 and 43rd in 2013.
July 21, 2015
Twelve cancer researchers have won awards from the spring cycle of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Developmental Grants program for basic science, clinical/translational and population-based cancer research.
July 20, 2015
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member Channing Der, PhD, is among four accomplished cancer researchers to join the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s prestigious board.
July 7, 2015
Adam Belanger, MD, a second-year pulmonology fellow in pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, was one of four North Carolina researchers to win a research grant from the Lung Cancer Initiative of North Carolina’s Research Fellows Program.
June 30, 2015
Bryce Reeve, PhD, a UNC Lineberger member and associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, is the 2015 recipient of the John Ware and Alvin Tarlov Career Achievement Prize, a major international award in Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures. Dr. Reeve was recognized for his "seminal contributions to the field of PROMs" and his "tireless training of the next generation of researchers" in that area of study.
June 23, 2015
A team of UNC Lineberger researchers, led by principal investigator William Wood, MD, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Cancer Institute (NCI) to study the effect of exercise in cancer survivors before allogeneic stem cell transplantation.
May 26, 2015
Emily Guerard, MD, a fellow in the UNC School of Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology, and Stephanie Wheeler, PhD, MPH, a UNC Lineberger member and an assistant professor of health policy and management in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, have been honored with 2015 Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO Merit Awards.
May 13, 2015
On Saturday, May 9, the General Alumni Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill honored Dr. H. Shelton “Shelley” Earp III, director of UNC Cancer Care and former director of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, for his outstanding service to the University and to the association.
May 1, 2015
UNC Health Care administers the CMS-approved Clinician and Group Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CG-CAHPS) survey to solicit feedback from our patients. Many UNC Lineberger physicians received the highest-possible honors from the patients they serve.
April 22, 2015
The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network and the American Association for Cancer Research announced April 16 that UNC Lineberger's Channing Der, PhD, and two co-principal investigators were chosen to receive a $1 million grant for pancreatic cancer research. Earlier this year, Der was also announced as the recipient of a grant from The Lustgarten Foundation, the nation’s largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research.
