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December 12, 2019

Chemistry Professor Gaurav Chopra wins multiple ASPIRE Awards

Gaurav Chopra, assistant professor of analytical and physical chemistry, has been selected as a dual winner of the 2018 National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences’ ASPIRE Design Challenge.

December 2, 2019

An engineering approach to reduce the pain of chemotherapy

Purdue University researchers are taking a closer look at the painful side effects from some chemotherapy treatments.

November 13, 2019

Could Anthrax Help Fight Bladder Cancer?

Researchers at Purdue University have come up with a way to combine the anthrax toxin with a growth factor to kill bladder cancer cells and tumors.

November 11, 2019

Getting cancer drugs to the brain is difficult – but a new ‘road map’ might make it easier

Tiffany Lyle, assistant professor of veterinary anatomic pathology at Purdue University, led research that has provided the first comprehensive characterization of both the blood-brain and blood-tumor barriers in brain metastases of lung cancer, which will serve as a road map for treatment development.

November 10, 2019

Purdue University Chemistry Professor Creates Device to Combat Cancer Drug Cost

A Purdue University professor is working to resolve the issue of cancer drug shortages. This could mean more money in the pocket for cancer patients and their families.

November 1, 2019

Cancer Bioinformatics Q&A – Purdue and IU Partners in Cutting Edge Cancer Technology

The Cancer Bioinformatics Core is a shared facility between IU Simon Cancer Center (IUSCC) and Purdue University Center for Cancer Research (PUCCR). Jun Wan, Ph.D., serves as director of the core at IUSCC. He and Nadia Atallah Lanman, Ph.D., manager of the core at PUCCR, answered questions about the facility.

September 30, 2019

Can herbicides cause breast cancer? Purdue and INSERM scientists discover a piece to the puzzle.

Scientists at Purdue University and France’s Institut de Cancérologie de L’Ouest (ICO) have discovered that glyphosate, the primary ingredient in some widely used herbicides and pesticides, can lead to breast cancer under certain conditions.

September 17, 2019

A case for personalized medicine in the search for answers about cancer

Purdue University, Indiana University scientists work together to find data-driven solutions

September 3, 2019

Epigenetics offers puzzling twists and turns, but also possible cancer treatments

Learning how to switch certain genes on or off — the focus of the field of epigenetics — could make cancer therapies such as chemotherapy or immunotherapy much more effective, says Purdue scientist Emily Dykhuizen.

August 27, 2019

Big data approach to cancer is focus of new Purdue partnership

Improving the use of biostatistics, predictive modeling and data science in cancer research is the focus of a new partnership between Purdue University and the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research.