April 17, 2019
A study by University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers helps explain how tumors recruit blood vessels that provide fuel for their growth as well as an avenue for the tumors to spread. In the journal Oncogene, the researchers also reported they built on these findings to uncover a potential treatment strategy to …
April 11, 2019
University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers presented innovative new strategies for using tiny particles – particles the size of a DNA molecule or the width of a human hair – to boost cancer treatment as part of the Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence/National Cancer Institute site visit on Tuesday. The researchers, …
March 26, 2019
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has inducted University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member Andrew Wang, MD, into its College of Fellows. Wang, an associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology and director of clinical and translational research in the department, and 156 other …
March 5, 2019
March 5, 2019
March 4, 2019
March 4, 2019
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.
February 20, 2019
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, …
February 11, 2019
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.
February 2, 2019
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 …
