Damania and Dittmer honored with Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award February 15, 2022 Blossom Damania, Ph.D. and Dirk Dittmer, Ph.D. are honored with a Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award.
Jason Stein, PhD and Hyejung Won, PhD Awarded U01 Grant from NIMH August 2, 2021 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 鈥淒iscovery and validation of genetic variation impacting the gene regulatory landscape during human...
Renowned breast cancer researcher Troester named Komen Scholar July 13, 2021 Susan G. Komen庐, the world鈥檚 largest nonprofit funder of cancer research, has appointed 黑料网 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center鈥檚聽Melissa Troester, PhD, to this year鈥檚 class of Komen Scholars.
Study points the way to boosting immunotherapy effectiveness against breast cancer and other solid tumors January 12, 2021 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 黑料网 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. The boost helps recruit...
New Faculty Hire December 23, 2020 Natalie Stanley, PhD Dr. Stanley arrived at 黑料网 from Professor Nima Aghaeepour鈥檚 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...
New Faculty Hires May 18, 2020 Christoph Rau, PhD My research focuses on using model organism populations to study cardiovascular disease.聽 I obtained my PhD in Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics at UCLA, where I began working with the Hybrid Mouse Diversity Panel to study the genetics underlying heart failure.聽 In my postdoc, I expanded into...