University Cancer Research Fund
The University Cancer Research Fund (UCRF) is a nation-leading investment to stimulate cancer research and reduce North Carolina's leading cause of death. The Fund builds upon the exceptional research base at UNC-Chapel Hill's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the state's only public, NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center.
UCRF's Goal
To create a nation-leading cancer research effort and to reduce North Carolina's cancer burden. UCRF is accomplishing these goals through:
- Discovery to better understand the causes and course of cancer;
- Innovation to create new and better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer; and by stimulating
- Delivery of improved cancer care, screening and prevention across the state.
Latest News
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Kay Yow Cancer Fund awards $1 million research grant to UNC Lineberger
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UNC Lineberger members make major contribution to President’s Cancer Panel report on HPV vaccination
- Promising new therapy in a smaller package
- UNC Lineberger discovery goes from the lab to the patient with FDA approval
- Prostate cancer treatment delays onset of pain and quality of life deterioration in men with metastatic prostate cancer
- UNC and Wake Forest awarded FDA, NIH grant to create Center for Regulatory Research on Tobacco Communications
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