UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

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1. 1975 UNC Lineberger Cancer Center is established UNC established a cancer research center in 1975 under founding director Joseph Pagano. Later named for the Lineberger family of Belmont, who helped fund its 1984 building, it earned NCI comprehensive status in 1990 and is North Carolina's only public one. UNC Lineberger: Celebrating UNC Lineberger's 50 years of discovery
2. by January 1982 Work begins on a building for UNC's Lineberger Cancer Research Center Work was under way by January 1982 on a new building for UNC's Lineberger Cancer Research Center near the Faculty Laboratory Office Building off Manning Drive, paid for with $3.2 million of institutional funds, a $1.37 million National Cancer Institute grant and $3.83 million in private gifts and due to be finished by June 1984. It was to hold laboratories, a library, a conference room and offices for the center, then run under the School of Medicine. The Daily Tar Heel, January 27, 1982, p. 2
3. October 3, 1987 UNC names a cancer research laboratory for Judge Elbert S. Peel A basic-research laboratory in the Lineberger Cancer Research Center was named the Elbert S. Peel Cancer Research Laboratory at a dedication dinner on campus. Friends and colleagues of Peel, a Superior Court judge who died of cancer in 1984, had raised more than $65,000 for it; former UNC president William Friday presided and Sen. Terry Sanford spoke. People: William C. Friday, Terry Sanford The Daily Tar Heel, October 5, 1987, p. 4
4. by February 23, 1990 Lineberger Cancer Research Center reaches its $1 million goal for a breast cancer program UNC's Lineberger Cancer Research Center reached its $1 million goal, raised from 2,100 donors in 30 states, to create a program in which teams of specialists would treat breast cancer patients and research screening with new molecular markers. The Daily Tar Heel, February 23, 1990, p. 3
5. by October 1, 1992 Lineberger Cancer Center is named one of four national breast cancer research programs The National Cancer Institute named UNC's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center one of four specialized programs of research excellence in breast cancer, with $6 million over three years. With the state's Central Cancer Registry, researchers planned a study of breast cancer in about 30 North Carolina counties, with special attention to Black women's higher death rates, and education programs to bring more women in for mammograms. The Daily Tar Heel, October 1, 1992, p. 1
6. November 11, 1994 Ground is broken for an $18 million expansion of the Lineberger Cancer Center UNC officials broke ground on November 11 for a 41,000-square-foot addition to the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, to be built in two phases by 1997 and paid for with the 1993 University Improvement Bond, a federal grant and private gifts. Director Joe Pagano said the center had filled its ten-year-old building within five years. People: C. D. Spangler Jr. The Daily Tar Heel, November 14, 1994, p. 3
7. 2009 North Carolina Cancer Hospital opens The North Carolina Cancer Hospital opened as the clinical home of UNC Lineberger. UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center: About
8. September 2009 N.C. Cancer Hospital is dedicated The seven-story, 315,000-square-foot N.C. Cancer Hospital, built with a 180 million dollar authorization from the General Assembly, was dedicated in September 2009. It tripled the space available for treating cancer patients at UNC. UNC School of Medicine, Division of Oncology: The NC Cancer Hospital

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