ECU, UNC team up on cancer care, research

he University of North Carolina’s two medical schools and their cancer centers have created a partnership to advance cancer research and bring leading-edge treatment to North Carolinians.

Officials at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine and its Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center, the UNC School of Medicine and its Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the UNC system signed a memorandum of understanding in December outlining basic aspects of an arrangement where they will work together to improve cancer care for North Carolinians and further research into the state’s leading cause of death.

Dr. Adam Asch