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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    

2021 World Pancreatic Cancer Day Raising awareness for the fight against pancreatic cancer on World Pancreatic Cancer Day with our fellow Tar Heels at the UNC Lineberger Pancreatic Cancer Center of Excellence.    

Congratulations to Joe Kearney, MD, on his chapter on Pathology and Molecular Characteristics of Pancreatic Cancer. in Surgical Oncology Clinics!   Dr. Joe Kearney is a post-doctoral trainee in Yeh Lab.  

Yeh Lab celebrates Halloween through Zoom! 🎃  

Congratulations Maddy Jenner for acceptance into the UNC CCBTP (Cancer Cell Biology Training Program) T32! Maddy is currently a graduate student in Yeh Lab.  

Dr. Kearney is a recipient of the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association 2021 Steve Sotsky Award. This annual award recognizes outstanding work in the field of pancreatic research by a trainee.

Dr. Xianlu (Laura) Peng was awarded a Spring 2021 UNC Lineberger Innovation Award, for the project title, “Interrogation of epigenetic disparities in minority population for precision medicine in gastric cancer”.