UCRF News Highlights
2018
- Discovery of kidney cancer driver could lead to new treatment strategy
- Researchers clarify role of mutations in glioblastoma
- Researchers map the genome of testicular cancer
- Blood mutations could contaminate genetic analyses of tumors
- By forming clots in tumors, immune cells aid lung cancer’s spread
- Bladder cancer model could pave the way for better drug efficacy studies
- Breast cancer places greater financial burden on black women
- UNC researchers identify promising delivery method for immunotherapy combination
- UNC scientists create better laboratory tools to study cancer’s spread
- Cigarillo packaging can influence product perception, study finds
- Researchers identify molecular target for brain cancer, develop immunotherapy approach to attack it
- Researchers define structure, function of enzyme key to blood cancers
- UNC Lineberger to use Colon Cancer Coalition grant to promote screening in Eastern North Carolina
- UNC Lineberger awards $1.1M in developmental research grants
- Narrowing the gap toward precision medicine for pancreatic cancer
2017
- Skin cancer treatment selfie goes viral, has public health lessons
- Using software, researchers predict tumor markers that could be immune targets
- Biological factors don’t completely explain racial disparities for ‘good prognosis’ breast cancer
- NCI grant to help more cancer patients become tobacco-free
- Timing could matter to how responsive cancer cells are to treatment, study suggests
- Using new knowledge about cell division, researchers look to improve chemotherapy effects
- To improve melanoma treatment, researchers look to block deletion of ‘self-reactive’ immune cells
- Innovative cancer data resource expands, gains a new name
- Study sheds light on why some breast cancers have limited response to immunotherapy
- Using ‘sticky’ nanoparticles, researchers develop new strategy to boost body’s cancer defenses
- New models of kidney cancer may drive immunotherapy research
- UNC-Chapel Hill spinout company generates more than $108M in stock offering
- In ovarian cancer, researchers uncover new drivers of cell division
- Researchers map genetic changes in glioblastoma as it progresses, test potential treatment strategy
- Study confirms link between alcohol consumption, breast cancer risk in black women
- Images of health risks make indoor tanning messages more effective
- UNC Lineberger receives $4 million gift to support promising new cancer treatment
- Aggressive breast cancer grows faster in obese environment
- New insights into side effects can help prostate cancer patients choose treatments
- UNC Lineberger launches innovative cellular immunotherapy program
- Revolutionary approach for treating glioblastoma works with human cells
- Researchers unlock mechanism of drug resistance in aggressive breast cancer