March 8, 2021
Tag: Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Program
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November 9, 2020
Advancing pancreatic cancer research and care
Pancreatic cancer is an extremely challenging cancer to treat and has an increasing incidence in the United States. Fortunately, pancreatic cancer research is being conducted at UNC Lineberger.
November 2, 2020
Triangle Business Journal: UNC spin-out raises $5.5 million to tackle pancreatic cancer
![Jen Jen Yeh and Matthew Lipner](https://unclineberger.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/867/2020/04/yeh-lipman-600x400.png)
April 7, 2020
Yeh, Lipner lead study in JCI Insight
Jen Jen Yeh, MD, and Matthew Lipner reported in the journal JCI Insight they have discovered a potential treatment strategy to reduce resistance to a chemotherapy combination used to treat pancreatic cancer.
![Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta and Paul Dayton](https://unclineberger.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/867/2020/03/pg-dayton-2020-600x400.png)
March 6, 2020
Researchers use innovative ideas to help fight pancreatic cancer
Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta, PhD, and Paul Dayton, PhD, are studying whether they can use tiny, engineered microbubbles and ultrasound imaging to improve the activation of the immune system against pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancers.
![Headshot of Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta](https://unclineberger.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/867/2019/09/Yuliya-preferred-2018-horizontal-scaled-e1663079034217-600x400.jpg)
February 7, 2020
Researchers find out what’s keeping cancer-killing T-cells away from pancreatic cancer tumors
Researchers led by Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta, PhD, have identified the culprit that keeps cancer-killing immune cells from reaching pancreatic cancer tumors. Their findings were published in the journal Cancer Immunology Research.
![Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta and Gaorav Gupta inside a research lab.](https://unclineberger.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/867/2020/01/guptas-600x400.jpg)
January 16, 2020
Teaming up in the lab and in life: researchers make an impact on cancer science
Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta, PhD, and Gaorav Gupta, MD, PhD, use their natural curiosity and drive to tackle cancer through their research at UNC Lineberger.
![Mary Gillam, a pancreatic cancer survivor, speaks to a crowd about her treatment journey.](https://unclineberger.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/867/2020/01/mary_gillamh-600x400.jpg)
January 9, 2020
Pancreatic cancer patient beats the odds to thrive after diagnosis
The care team at UNC Lineberger helped Mary Gillam beat the odds and become a pancreatic cancer survivor. “I truly could not have gotten through this without Chapel Hill’s support,” she said. “The whole team has been outstanding.”
![Channing Der heashot](https://unclineberger.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/867/2019/08/Channing-Der-Horizontal-600x400.jpg)
November 26, 2019
Der named AAAS Fellow
The honor recognizes Der's contributions to cancer research. His lab's recent findings on pancreatic cancer have led to clinical studies of a new treatment.
![Jen Jen Yeh](https://unclineberger.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/867/2018/10/narrowing-the-gap-image2-600x400.jpeg)
November 21, 2019
Pancreatic cancer tumor classification could optimize treatment choices
In Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, Jen Jen Yeh, MD, and Naim Rashid, PhD, reported findings for how two subtypes of pancreatic cancer respond to treatments differently. Importantly, they found that one subtype of the disease showed poor responses to common therapies and also had worse survival outcomes.