Lawmakers picture UNC at front in cancer research

The News & Observer
June 4, 2007

By J. Andrew Curliss

STAFF WRITER

North Carolina legislators and UNC-Chapel Hill leaders want to put the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center on a level with household names in the field: Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York, the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

The state Senate is backing that ambition with a proposal to pump $50 million annually into the Lineberger center. To read the entire story, click here.