$200K grant stimulates change for cancer research, By Patrick Thomas Chapel Hill, PUBLISHED 6:00 AM ET Jan. 26, 2023

A grand challenge in the genome sciences is identifying functionally relevant variants and interpreting their biological impacts on cellular systems. A growing body of work in the biomedical sciences generates and analyzes omics data; our work contributes to these efforts by focusing on the integration of different omics data types to bring mechanistic insights to … Read more

10 May 2023 Leading investigators offer ‘highly scientific, but patient-focused talks on women’s cancers at the Lineberger’s 46th symposium (Read HERE)

On March 24, the department hosted a group of eight students who participate in the WTCC STEM Academic and Research Training (START) Program

Twelve UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Centers members were named to Clarivate’s 2022 Highly Cited Researchers list, which recognizes scientists who published papers that ranked in the top 1% of cited publications in their field during the past decade.

Blossom Damania, Ph.D. and Dirk Dittmer, Ph.D. are honored with a Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award.

From the School of Medicine Genetic published July 30th, Drs. Jason Stein (Assistant Professor) and Hyejung Won (Assistant Professor) have been awarded a U01 grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) for their project titled “Discovery and validation of genetic variation impacting the gene regulatory landscape during human cortical development”

Susan G. Komen®, the world’s largest nonprofit funder of cancer research, has appointed UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Melissa Troester, PhD, to this year’s class of Komen Scholars.

Boosting immune system T cells to effectively attack solid tumors, such as breast cancers, can be done by adding a small molecule to a treatment procedure called chimeric antigen receptor-T (CAR-T) cell therapy, according to a study by researchers at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. The boost helps recruit more immune cells into battle … Read more

  Natalie Stanley, PhD Dr. Stanley arrived at UNC from Professor Nima Aghaeepour’s computational immunology laboratory at Stanford University. Her current research is focused on developing bioinformatics and machine learning algorithms for gaining a systems-level understanding of human immunity from single-cell mass cytometry data. Her recently developed algorithms have been applied to understand the immune … Read more