June 27, 2025 | Machine Learning, N Krupenko News, News
Madeline Childress, a doctoral student at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute in the Natalia Krupenko Lab, is tackling one of the biggest challenges in cancer treatment: how to kill cancer cells without harming healthy ones. “Cancer, believe it or not, is actually...
February 20, 2025 | Machine Learning, News, S Krupenko News, Trujillo News
Amira Abdellatef, PhD, and Isis Trujillo-Gonzalez, PhD, of the UNC Nutrition Research Institute have been awarded a Pilot and Feasibility Program grant from SPLENDOR-NC. This award provides funding to early-career scientists to support research that advances...
February 5, 2025 | Machine Learning, News
This article originally appeared on UNC HealthTalk. First, the good news: The rates of colorectal cancer (cancers of the colon and rectum) have been declining over the past 40 years, thanks to regular screenings and lifestyle choices such as healthy eating, staying...
August 29, 2024 | Hursting News, News
This article originally appeared on OncLive.com. Stephen Hursting, PhD, MPH, professor, Department of Nutrition, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, and professor of nutrition, UNC Nutrition Research Institute,...
August 9, 2024 | News, News Rushing, Sumner News
Blake Rushing, PhD, an assistant professor of Nutrition at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI), has been awarded a $3.9M R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop a groundbreaking Human Cancer Metabolome Atlas. This project aims to map the complex...
April 11, 2024 | Hursting News, News
The annual American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) meeting took place April 5-10 in San Diego. It is the focal point of the cancer research community, where scientists, clinicians, other health care professionals, survivors, patients, and advocates gather to...
