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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Where Charles Perou defined the PAM50 intrinsic subtypes of breast cancer; a public university centre with in-house CAR-T manufacturing.

NCI-designated since 1975 and comprehensive since 1990, UNC Lineberger is a public-university cancer centre with a statewide remit across North Carolina. Charles Perou's intrinsic subtypes and the PAM50 assay reshaped breast cancer classification; Norman Sharpless, later NCI director, worked on CDK4/6 and cellular senescence here and co-founded G1 Therapeutics. Gianpietro Dotti and Barbara Savoldo run one of the few academic in-house CAR-T programmes, and Ethan Basch's patient-reported outcome trials changed how symptoms are monitored during chemotherapy. Blossom Damania and Dirk Dittmer lead research on Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus and virus-associated cancers.

Location
Chapel Hill, NC, US
Type
cancer center · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
NCI designation
comprehensive
OnCo score
#91 · 35 points (0 Newsweek + 15 NCI + 20 from 10 linked objects) · ranking

Programmes

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  • Breast cancer subtyping (PAM50)
  • Academic CAR-T
  • Patient-reported outcomes
  • Viral oncology

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