November 20, 2024
A collaboration between Stanley M. Lemon, MD, and fellow infectious diseases colleagues at the UNC School of Medicine has unveiled a crucial role for a protein called PDAP1 in hepatitis A virus infection of the liver.
August 15, 2024
Taghreed Mohammed Al-Turki, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the UNC Lineberger lab of Jack Griffith, PhD, describes her long, difficult, and rewarding journey of becoming a telomere scientist as a first-time mother at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
July 18, 2024
Researchers in the lab of Jean Cook, PhD, chair and professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, have identified the cellular processes that occur when you take a cancer drug meant to stop rapid cell growth in tumors.
July 16, 2024
Nadja Vielot, PhD, was recently awarded a four-year K01 grant totaling over $620K by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The grant, "Developing and piloting an intervention to reduce human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination disparities in rural adolescents," aims to improve HPV vaccination rates in rural North Carolinians to reduce the drastic urban-rural disparities in HPV cancer incidence and mortality.
July 10, 2024
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded Gilliam Fellowships to 50 graduate students in science – and their advisers – following the largest competition in the program’s history. John Patrick Flores and his adviser Douglas Phanstiel, PhD, associate professor of cell biology and physiology, were selected in the 19th year of the program.
June 19, 2024
Ferris comes to UNC from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), where he was the director of the Hillman Cancer Center.
May 15, 2024
Brooke Matson, Jeremy Meier, Brittany Raffa, and Shivani Sud will receive support from the UNC School of Medicine Physician Scientists Training Program to cultivate their careers as translational clinical scientists.
May 13, 2024
Sarah Linnstaedt, PhD, Benjamin Vincent, MD, and Pengda Liu, PhD, were selected as Yang Family Biomedical Scholars in the eighth installment of this annual School of Medicine award.
March 15, 2024
New research by the lab of Jessica Thaxton, PhD, MsCR, in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology at the UNC School of Medicine and colleagues in the Immunotherapy Group at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, has unveiled new clues behind T-cell metabolism that could enhance immunotherapies that rely on T cells to fight cancer.
February 8, 2024
An interdisciplinary team of UNC-Chapel Hill researchers from computational medicine, genetics, biostatistics, and surgery investigated how cell cycle flexibility allows tumor cells to escape the effect of anti-cancer drugs that target cell division. UNC Lineberger members Jeremy Purvis, PhD, professor of genetics, and Phillip Spanheimer, MD, assistant professor of surgery, led this study.
January 22, 2024
In this new Vital Signs series, we feature graduate student Andrew Scott Kennedy Jr., in the Thaxton lab. He’s a budding microscopist who plans to dedicate his research career to understanding health and disease to help patients.
December 13, 2023
Prostate cancer is the 2nd leading cause of cancer death for men in North Carolina. Eric Wallen, MD, professor of urology at the UNC School of Medicine and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, is co-leading the effort to improve diagnostic and health outcomes for all North Carolinians with prostate cancer, including Black men and Native Americans, who are disproportionately affected.