UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center is a matrix cancer center at one of the United States’ premier public universities. The center achieved National Cancer Institute designation in 1975 and became a comprehensive center in 1990. Now under the direction of Dr. Shelton Earp, UNC Lineberger is the organizing structure for cancer care and research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The center's 260 members come from Schools of...
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center is a matrix cancer center at one of the United States’ premier public universities. The center achieved National Cancer Institute designation in 1975 and became a comprehensive center in 1990. Now under the direction of Dr. Shelton Earp, UNC Lineberger is the organizing structure for cancer care and research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The center's 260 members come from Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Pharmacy, Nursing, and Dentistry, as well as from departments in the College of Arts and Sciences and other professional schools. They represent diverse disciplines including psychology, physics, computer science, fundamental biology, genetics, and chemistry, population, behavioral, statistical, and the clinical sciences. Members currently hold over $160 million in annual research and training grants, including $48 million in NCI funding.
In the summer of 2007, the North Carolina General Assembly established the...
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