It can take years before scientists understand how a basic research discovery will impact the clinical care of cancer patients. IU Simon Comprehensive Cencer Center is committed to following these discoveries from the laboratory to the clinical environment and back.
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A mobile lung cancer screening program will soon take life-saving screenings to eligible high-risk Hoosiers statewide, thanks to a generous $4.5 million gift from the Tom and Julie Wood Family Foundation that will include matching dollars from Indiana University Health, bringing its impact to $8.5 million.
Michael B. Emerick was married, father to an 18-month-old daughter and running four of his own businesses in Florida when severe abdominal pain sent him to a hospital. The harrowing experience that followed proves your cancer doctors’ skill, experience and forthrightness will shape the rest of your life.
Researcher and Ph.D. student Aditi Khatpe is the 2023 Deutsch Scholarship awardee. She’s earning her degree through breast cancer research at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Ten to 17 years: That’s the most-quoted estimate of how long an advance or discovery in medical research takes to reach physicians and their patients. Reducing this delay is part of what’s driving 2023 Hester Scholarship awardees Sarah Gutch and Emily White. Both are working alongside top immunotherapy researchers who share their goals at the IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Komen Tissue Bank collecting breast tissue from men
Researchers know that male breast cancer behaves and develops differently than that in women, and they are now working to discover more about the disease—thanks in part to Matthew Bowman. Learn more about their efforts.
~In-Person~ IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Special Seminar with Eynav Klechevsky, Ph.D.
Cancer Research Institute
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*SPECIAL SEMINAR* 11:30 - 12:30 / R4 101 IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Special Seminar presents, Eynav Klechevsky, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology, W...Read more
~In-Person~ IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Seminar Series with John Turchi, Ph.D.
Joseph E. Walther Hall
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IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Seminar Series presents, John Turchi, Ph.D., Tom and Julie Wood Family Foundation Professor of Lung Cancer Research, Department of Medicine, IU School of Medicine ...Read more
~Virtual~ IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Grand Rounds with Michele Coté, Ph.D.
IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Grand Rounds presents, Michele Coté, Ph.D., Director, Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank, Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Profes...Read more
