With many thanks to the many great PIs affiliated with these papers published in Nature 06 February 2020 issue, we would like to honorable mention the PIs from UNC Computational Medicine Program: Charles Perou, PhD, Katherine Hoadley, PhD and Joel Parker, PhD  Read Article Here

Dr. Katherine Hoadley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Her research interests include integrative genomic analyses to better understand cancer. She has been a member of the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Project for over a decade. She was … Read more

Jonathan Schisler, MS, PhD, led research showing that limiting the activity of a mutant CHIP protein could decrease symptom severity for people with cerebral ataxia, a debilitating disease of the nervous system.

UNC Lineberger’s Joel Parker, PhD, associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Genetics and director of cancer genetics for the UNC Lineberger Bioinformatics Core, presented the Haddow Lecture for The Institute of Cancer Research in London this year. In the lecture, he discussed novel computational methods to explore RNA sequencing data for cancer … Read more

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation announced the 2019 class of Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering, including Wesley Legant, PhD, in the biomedical engineering and pharmacology departments.

The National Institutes of Health announced 93 awards to fund highly innovative, high-impact biomedical research as part of its High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program. Wesley Legant, PhD, assistant professor in the departments of pharmacology and biomedical engineering, and Hyejung Won, PhD, assistant professor of genetics, were selected as NIH Director’s New Innovator Award recipients this week. Legant … Read more

The editors at Cell Press selected Li Qian, PhD, associate director of the UNC McAllister Heart Institute, as one of its best scientific article reviewers, and published a short essay about her views on peer review. Li Qian, PhD, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and associate director of the UNC McAllister Heart Institute, … Read more

UNC Lineberger’s Benjamin G. Vincent, MD, and Christof Smith, PhD.   Scientists at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have designed and validated a model for predicting what might make an effective cancer vaccine against a patient’s tumor. This finding could help overcome a significant obstacle in the development of personalized cancer … Read more

June 14, 2019 Wesley Legant, PhD, assistant professor in the departments of Pharmacology and Biomedical Engineering, earned this prestigious early career award for his work developing new fluorescence microscopes for rapid three-dimensional imaging. Wesley Legant, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology and the UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, was named as a … Read more

August 7, 2019 Charles M. Perou, PhD Before he set out to understand how tens of thousands of genes are behaving in breast cancer, Charles M. Perou, PhD, was hunting just one gene. As a graduate student at the University of Utah in the 1990s, Perou was focused on finding the genetic cause of a … Read more