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Using natural killer cells to treat breast cancer metastases

00-002 Joseph S. Pagano Conference Room, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Isaac Chan, MD, PhD; Medical Oncology Fellow, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins.

UNC Lineberger Breast SPORE Seminar: Project Updates

00-002 Joseph S. Pagano Conference Room, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Researchers, clinicians and public health specialists at UNC and UNC Lineberger are working diligently to find new ways of detecting, treating and preventing breast cancer. Their work begins with the National Cancer Institute-funded Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Breast Cancer. This session will focus on project #3 updates: "Ubiquitin signaling, deep proteomics and … Read more

DAMPening Inflammation to Prevent GVHD and Enhance GVL

00-002 Joseph S. Pagano Conference Room, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Pan Zheng, MD, PhD, Professor, Surgery, University of Maryland, School of Medicine. Hosted by Lishan Su, PhD. Zheng is a physician-scientist who received her medical training at Peking Union Medical College. She received her PhD at Yale University and did her residency in pathology at the New York University School of Medicine. Zheng’s research includes … Read more

Oncology Grand Rounds: Preserving CTLA4 Immune Tolerance Checkpoint for safer and more effective cancer immunotherapy

00-002 Joseph S. Pagano Conference Room, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Yang Liu, PhD, Director, Division of Immunotherapy, Professor of Surgery, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine. Liu’s contributions to the immunology field include pioneering work in the concept of T-cell co-stimulation and cancer immunity, the relationship between innate and adaptive immunity, and non-self-discrimination by the innate immune system. Many of the … Read more

Novel Therapeutic Strategies For Lung Cancer

00-002 Joseph S. Pagano Conference Room, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Kwok-Kin Wong, MD, PhD, Anne Murnick Cogan and David H. Cogan Professor of Oncology, Director of Medical Hematology/Oncology, Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Health. Hosted by Shelton Earp, MD.

Genetic ancestry and breast cancer subtype-specific risk in Latin American Women

00-002 Joseph S. Pagano Conference Room, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Laura Fejerman, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Institute of Human Genetics, Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of San Francisco California. Seminar co-sponsored by UNC Lineberger Minority Students - Postdoctoral Training Program.

Oncology Grand Rounds: Circulating Biomarkers for Treatment Selection, Response Monitoring, Detection of Recurrence, and Early Cancer Detection

00-002 Joseph S. Pagano Conference Room, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Minetta Liu, MD Professor and Research Chair, Department of Oncology; Consultant, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology; Medical Director, Office of Specialty Collaborations and Contracts; Associate Medical Director, Department of Development. Mayo Clinic Rochester. Hosted by Lisa Carey, MD, FASCO.