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Congratulations to Des Weighill, a recipient of the Kenner Family Research Fund Best Paper Awards for the Best Abstracts in Early Detection in Pancreatic Cancer.

Des Weighill, PhD, received The NCI Pathway to Independence Award for Outstanding Early Stage Postdoctoral Researchers in July 2022. Des has also received the Hopper-Belmont Foundation Inspiration Award in September 2022, and most recently received the APA 2022 Young Investigator Travel Grant. Dr. Des Weighill is a post-doctoral fellow in...

We are so proud of Yi Xu for his fantastic oral presentation at the AACR Pancreatic Cancer Conference, (September 2022)

Congratulations to Mariaelena on The PanCAN Early Career Diversity Underrepresented Minority Travel Scholarship to the AACR Pancreatic Cancer Conference (August 2022)

Yeh, Maduekwe selected as inaugural recipients of the Lustgarten Foundation’s LEAD Project grant    

The American Association for Cancer Research presented the founding members and the current project team associated with The Cancer Genome Atlas with the 2020 AACR Team Science Awards during the AACR Virtual Annual Meeting II on June 24.

University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers reported the discovery of a potential treatment strategy to reduce resistance to a chemotherapy combination used to treat pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancer types.

In the journal Nature Communications, researchers from the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center reported they have designed a computational method for separating the different tissues in a particular sample – whether that is stroma in the case of pancreatic cancer, immune cells or cancer cells.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Integrated Translational Oncology Program (UNC-iTOP) is a T32 training program focused on training clinicians (MDs), basic scientists (PhDs), and PhD, MD and MD-PhD candidates in clinical/translational disease-based research at the interface of clinical oncology and cancer biology using patient samples.

We are thrilled to congratulate Matthew Lipner of Yeh lab on successfully completing his PhD defense, an achievement that follows years of hard work. A successful PhD defense is one of the landmark achievements of a researcher’s career and is sure to be only the first step in Matt’s journey.