December 8, 2021
Charles Perou, PhD, and colleagues have demonstrated a major step forward in melding two key methods for studying breast cancer. This approach enabled them to divide breast cancers into 12 distinct biological groups.
August 31, 2020
Katherine Hoadley, PhD, is the 2020 recipient of the Marion R. Wright Award for Scientific Excellence. Hoadley is the first to receive the award.
June 24, 2020
UNC Lineberger faculty have held leadership and team membership roles with The Cancer Genome Atlas, which was launched in 2006.
October 8, 2015
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers helped lead an effort by The Cancer Genome Atlas Network of researchers to map the genetic drivers of invasive lobular carcinoma, the second most commonly diagnosed invasive form of breast cancer. They found that this cancer type may be at least three different diseases that differ in their microenvironmental features and outcomes.
June 18, 2015
UNC Lineberger researchers significantly contributed to a better understanding of the genetic alterations found in cutaneous melanoma as part of a multi-institution, international effort of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). Researchers collected samples from 331 patients and used several molecular methodologies to complete the study, the largest of its kind to-date for cutaneous melanoma. The findings were published in the journal Cell.
March 31, 2015
UNC sequenced the RNA for 10,000 tumor samples as part of The Cancer Genome Atlas project, a National Cancer Institute and National Human Genome Research Institute-backed effort to create a comprehensive atlas of the genetic changes in cancer.