Assistant professor and radiation oncologist Dr. Shekinah Elmore is a member of the cancer leadership team for UNC Project Malawi, which recently was awarded a five-year training grant from the National Cancer Institute to train the next generation of cancer physicians and scientists in the Southeast African nation of Malawi.  The nearly $1.5M award to … Read more

  Rising 3rd year resident Dr. Shivani Sud and her faculty advisor physician-scientist Dr. Gaorav Gupta received recognition recently from the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center for their research into a simplified screening test for cervical cancer. The test, based on a simple blood or urine sample, detects the presence of human papillomavirus (HPV) the … Read more

Congratulations to radiation oncology second-year resident Dr. Shivani Sud for her receipt of not one, but two, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center development grants in support of her research on the treatment of cervical cancer. The first award, “Application of circulating HPV DNA testing to management of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia” is in collaboration with her … Read more

For his work on trying to reduce side effects of whole brain radiotherapy

Will research ways of reducing dry mouth in patients receiving whole brain radiotherapy

To study simulation-based training for radiation therapists

Will compare different types of radiation treatments for prostate cancer

Congratulations to UNC Radiation Oncology physician-scientist Dr. Andrew Wang and collaborator Dr. Seungpyo Hong from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for securing $2.9 million in venture capital to support the commercialization of a laboratory test (Oncosense CTC) they developed to capture … Continued

Will advance cancer nanotechnology research.