On June 1, the Eshelman Institute for Innovation (EII) awarded $3.5 million across 24 projects to support research and education at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Alexander “Sasha” Kabanov’s “Targeting of inflamed monocytes for gene therapy of cancer” was … Read more
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers presented innovative new strategies for using tiny particles the size of a DNA molecule or the width of a human hair to boost cancer treatment as part of the Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence/National … Read more
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has inducted of University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member Andrew Wang, MD, into its College of Fellows. Wang, an associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department … Read more
Andrew Wang, MD, Melina Kibbe, MD, and collaborators were awarded $1.5 million from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study the use of nanoparticles to prevent a complication of surgery. “Post-surgical adhesions” occur after surgery when bands of … Read more
Melina Kibbe, MD, Colin G. Thomas Jr. Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery, was recently interviewed by Focus Carolina. She discussed the events in her life that led her to become a pioneering doctor, her groundbreaking research and her work as a Vascular Surgeon.
Melina Kibbe, MD, chair of the department of surgery, spoke to Frank Stacio Monday for an extended interview.
Edward Bahnson, Ph.D., a member of the Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery and an assistant professor of surgery at UNC School of Medicine, received a Young Investigator Award at the 19th biennial meeting of the Society for Free Radical … Read more
Marina Sokolsky-Papkov, Ph.D., a research assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, is the recipient of a Hero Fund grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation to support her research into more effective methods of treating medullosblastoma, the most common malignant … Read more
Alexander “Sasha” Kabanov, Ph.D., Dr. Sci., has been selected for membership in the College of Fellows of the Controlled Release Society for his “outstanding contributions to the field of delivery science and technology.” Kabanov will be inducted into the college … Read more
Chemistry Professor Joe DeSimone is currently on leave from UNC to act as CEO of Carbon, the company he co-founded with his colleague Professor Edward Samulski and former UNC postdoc Alex Ermoshkin. Carbon uses Continuous Liquid Interface Production technology that the co-founders … Read more