{"id":2240,"date":"2021-06-18T10:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T14:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/hemonc-fellowship\/?page_id=2240"},"modified":"2021-06-21T10:17:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T14:17:13","slug":"about-unc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/hemonc-fellowship\/program-summary\/about-unc\/","title":{"rendered":"About UNC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About UNC Lineberger<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/unclineberger.org\/about\/\">UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center<\/a> is a cancer research and treatment center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Serving patients at the N.C. Cancer Hospital, UNC Lineberger is the only public National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in the state of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<h2>About the N.C. Cancer Hospital<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10278\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 430px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unclineberger.org\/about\/nc-cancer-hospital\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10278\" src=\"https:\/\/unclineberger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/867\/2018\/10\/usnwr-jump-image2-1024x802.jpeg\" alt=\"N.C. Cancer Hospital\" width=\"420\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">The N.C. Cancer Hospital in Chapel Hill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/unclineberger.org\/about\/nc-cancer-hospital\/\">N.C. Cancer Hospital<\/a> is the flagship site for UNC Cancer Care and the clinical home of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, where we are exerting an unprecedented effort to make strides against cancer and the suffering it causes is fueled by collaboration across the population, basic and clinical sciences.<\/p>\n<h2>Our research and clinical care leaders<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unclineberger.org\/members\/\">UNC Lineberger members<\/a> carry out research within one of our nine <a href=\"https:\/\/unclineberger.org\/research\/\">center scientific programs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Breast Cancer Research<\/li>\n<li>Cancer Cell Biology<\/li>\n<li>Cancer Epidemiology<\/li>\n<li>Cancer Genetics<\/li>\n<li>Cancer Prevention and Control<\/li>\n<li>Clinical Research<\/li>\n<li>Global Oncology<\/li>\n<li>Immunology<\/li>\n<li>Molecular Therapeutics<\/li>\n<li>Virology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, some members are physician-researchers, who are vital components of our <a href=\"https:\/\/unclineberger.org\/patientcare\/\">patient care<\/a> team.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to patient care within our clinics, UNC Lineberger offers several hundred clinical trials for adults and children who have cancer or blood disorders.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/unclineberger.org\/ccsp\/\">Comprehensive Cancer Support Program<\/a> offers programs and services to patients and caregivers during treatment, recovery and survivorship.<\/p>\n<h2>Community Outreach and Engagement at UNC Lineberger<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52656\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 430px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-52656\" src=\"https:\/\/unclineberger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/867\/2020\/03\/outreach_team_and_community_board-1024x738.jpg\" alt=\"Caption available\" width=\"420\" height=\"303\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">The UNC Lineberger Community Outreach and Engagement team with members of the community board.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/unclineberger.org\/community-outreach\/\">Office of Community Outreach and Engagement<\/a> ensures that UNC Lineberger research, clinical care, and programmatic efforts are timely, relevant, responsive, and infused with community perspectives, including those perspectives of policy makers, community providers and public health practitioners, cancer patients and caregivers, and the public at large. The COE office plays an important role by helping UNC Lineberger reduce disparities and improve cancer outcomes for the people of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<h2>Highlighted programs and initiatives<\/h2>\n<h3>Geriatric Oncology Program<\/h3>\n<p>Older patients with cancer can be seen by both an expert in their type of cancer as well as a geriatric oncologist to maximize the quality of care for each individual. The <a href=\"https:\/\/unclineberger.org\/geriatric\/\">Geriatric Oncology Program<\/a> brings together expertise from across UNC to ensure the highest quality cancer care for older patients and to conduct research that furthers understanding of the factors affecting cancer treatment in the elderly. Program faculty also aim to educate medical students, residents, fellows, and faculty on issues related to geriatric oncology.<\/p>\n<h3>CAR-T immunotherapy<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50719\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 430px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50719\" src=\"https:\/\/unclineberger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/867\/2019\/12\/research2019EOYthumb.jpg\" alt=\"An employee of the ACT Facility wears full protective medical gear, and holds up a sealed tube of light red liquid.\" width=\"420\" height=\"237\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">An employee at the Advanced Cellular Therapeutics Facility holds a tube of human cells. The ACT Facility was established in 2015 to support clinical trials requiring human cellular therapy products at UNC Lineberger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>UNC Lineberger is one of a select few academic centers in the United States \u2014 and the only center in North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia \u2014 with the scientific, technical and clinical capabilities to identify new tumor targets and then develop and infuse novel <a href=\"https:\/\/unclineberger.org\/cellular-immunotherapy\/\">CAR-T immunotherapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These investigational therapies are manufactured at UNC Lineberger and are not commercially available; they are part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unclineberger.org\/cellular-immunotherapy\/clinical-trials\/\">CAR-T clinical trials<\/a> that are only available at UNC Lineberger.<\/p>\n<h3>Malawi Cancer Consortium<\/h3>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unclineberger.org\/global-oncology\/malawi-cancer-consortium\/\">UNC-Malawi Cancer Consortium<\/a>\u00a0is funded through a multi-investigator cooperate grant (U54 CA190152) between UNC Lineberger and Lighthouse Trust, the Malawi Ministry of Health, and University of Malawi College of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The UNC-Malawi Cancer Consortium seeks to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Contribute to an accurate accounting of all all cancer incidences in Malawi. 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