March 5, 2019
Tag: Molecular Therapeutics Research Program
March 5, 2019
WRAL: Father’s death inspires UNC researcher’s fight to cure pancreatic cancer
March 4, 2019
FierceBiotech: New strategies for improving pancreatic cancer treatments
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March 4, 2019
Potential treatment strategy uncovered for pancreatic cancer
Scientists at UNC Lineberger discovered a technique to make pancreatic cancer cells reliant on one energy source and then starve them of it, which has led to clinical studies of a novel treatment strategy.
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February 20, 2019
Researchers discover potential attack strategy for aggressive breast cancer
University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have designed a novel way to attack an aggressive breast cancer. By working with a drug development company, they hope their laboratory discovery will translate to a new treatment combination in the clinic in the future. The latest finding, described in the journal Cancer Cell International, …
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February 11, 2019
UNC Lineberger awards $1.35M for cancer research
UNC Lineberger awarded grants to 14 scientists and research teams in the fall grant awards cycle. Applications for the next round of funding will be due March 15.
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February 2, 2019
Der to receive mentorship award from Carolina
Channing Der, PhD, a member of the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology, will receive the “Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement” at an awards banquet April 8. Der is one of 24 faculty members and teaching assistants who have been named winners of Carolina’s …
![Andrew Wang and Jonathan Serody](https://unclineberger.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/867/2019/01/Andrew-Wang-and-Jonathan-Serody-600x400.jpg)
December 3, 2018
Wang and Serody awarded $2M grant to study personalized cancer vaccines
The University of North Carolina System recently awarded UNC Lineberger’s Andrew Wang, MD, and Jonathan Serody, MD, a four year, $2.09 million Research Opportunities Initiative grant to support their research using pharmacoengineering approaches to develop more effective personalized cancer vaccines. The grant was one of 15 awarded to scientists across the UNC System, with the specific intent to support …
November 19, 2018
Daily Tar Heel: This UNC researcher studying pancreatic cancer just received a $600,000/year grant
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November 16, 2018
Researchers identify resistance mechanism to possible pancreatic cancer treatment
In the journal Cancer Cell, UNC Lineberger's Channing Der, PhD, and colleagues described how pancreatic cancer may develop resistance to ERK inhibitors in pancreatic cancer.