H. Shelton Earp, MD
H. Shelton Earp, MD
https://bcrf-static.s3.amazonaws.com...es_earp_01.jpg Professor and Director, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC >>read Profile 2013-2014 BCRF Project: (The Estée Lauder Award) The UNC Lineberger team led by Dr. Earp continues its research program featuring clinical and genetic breast cancer research centered on the EGF receptor and other receptor tyrosine kinase families. This report relays recent progress and budget expenditures for the three areas:
In 2013-2014, Dr. Earp’s team will finalize and publish their Breast Cancer Vaccine Trial results, investigate the oncogenic and tumor suppressive function of HER4 and WWOX, and study the breast cancer microenvironment role of the Mer receptor tyrosine kinase, as well as test whether inhibition of Mer will stimulate anti-breast cancer immunity. Bio: Dr. H. Shelton Earp is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. After a medical internship at Vanderbilt and service in the army, he returned to Chapel Hill where he performed his residency and fellowship, joining the faculty in 1976. He is now the Lineberger Professor of Cancer Research and a professor in the Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology. In his role as Director at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, he coordinates cancer research and care at one of the country's premier public universities, including establishment of cancer epidemiology and prevention research programs with faculty in the School of Public Health. Dr. Earp’s laboratory conducts clinical and translational breast cancer research as well as basic research on the behavior of cancer cells by studying the signals that regulate cell growth, differentiation and programmed cell death. His group has identified and studied genes involved in these cellular decisions. He has authored 160 biomedical-research papers. He serves as Principal Investigator of the UNC Breast Cancer SPORE and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center grants. The UNC Breast SPORE, one of the original four Breast Cancer SPOREs, was just renewed for five years, Years 15-19. Dr. Earp has been the recipient of UNC School of Medicine teaching awards and has served on boards and chaired national review committees for the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute. He is an elected member of the American Association of Professors, the American Society of Clinical Investigation, and recently served as President of the American Association of Cancer Institutes. |
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