{"id":28050,"date":"2026-05-27T09:34:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/?p=28050"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:56:31","slug":"dr-der-and-dr-adrienne-coxs-groundbreaking-research-on-kras-targeted-cancer-therapies-featured-in-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/dr-der-and-dr-adrienne-coxs-groundbreaking-research-on-kras-targeted-cancer-therapies-featured-in-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Der and Dr. Adrienne Cox\u2019s groundbreaking research on KRAS-targeted cancer therapies featured in The New York Times."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/directory\/channing-der-phd\/\"><strong>Channing Der<\/strong> <\/a>and Dr. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/directory\/adrienne-cox-phd\/\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Adrienne Cox<\/b><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">\u2019s groundbreaking research on KRAS-targeted cancer therapies was featured in <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>The New York Times article, <span class=\"s3\">&#8220;<\/span>How an \u2018Impossible\u2019 Idea Led to a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough!&#8221;<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%;clear: left\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2021\/03\/channing-der-250-1.jpg\" alt=\"Channing Der, PhD\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2021\/03\/channing-der-250-1.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2021\/03\/channing-der-250-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2019\/01\/Cox-Adrienne400-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Adrienne Cox, PhD\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2019\/01\/Cox-Adrienne400-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2019\/01\/Cox-Adrienne400-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2019\/01\/Cox-Adrienne400-2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Dr. Channing Der (L) and Dr. Adrienne Cox (R)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">T<\/span><span class=\"s3\">he May 12 article highlighted how their pioneering work at UNC helped establish KRAS mutations as key drivers of pancreatic cancer and laid the foundation for promising new treatments like daraxonrasib, an experimental drug showing encouraging results in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read the full<em> The New York Times<\/em> article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/12\/health\/pancreatic-cancer-daraxonrasib-kras.html?searchResultPosition=1\">, <em>&#8220;How an \u2018Impossible\u2019 Idea Led to a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough.&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of The New York Times article is, &#8220;How an \u2018Impossible\u2019 Idea Led to a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough!&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22429,"featured_media":28095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news","category-featured","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/05\/der-cox-gr5-250.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/05\/der-cox-gr5-250.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/05\/der-cox-gr5-250.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/05\/der-cox-gr5-250.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2026\/05\/der-cox-gr5-250-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Channing Der, PhD and Adrienne Cox, PhD","category_details":[{"name":"Faculty News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/news\/faculty-news\/"},{"name":"Featured News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/featured\/"},{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28050"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28068,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28050\/revisions\/28068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}