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Home arrow Health & Medicine arrow UNC cancer center scientist awarded lung cancer research grant
UNC cancer center scientist awarded lung cancer research grant E-mail
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Dr. Albert Baldwin, a researcher at UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been awarded a two-year $100,000 National Lung Cancer Partnership/LUNGevity Foundation Research Grant.

Baldwin, an associate director of the Lineberger Center and the William Rand Kenan professor of biology and cancer cell biology in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences’ biology department, will use the grant to study how normal cells are transformed into cancer cells through molecular changes.

The proposal for the research is titled, “Targeting NF-Kappa B as a New Treatment Option for Lung Cancer.”

UNC Lineberger contact: Dianne Shaw, (919) 966-7834 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it