Category: Research
UI Health Care oncologists lead the way in studying new methods to enhance immune response in tumors
UI Health Care is leading a clinical trial that is demonstrating a completely new way of harnessing the immune system to fight cancer.
UI researchers receive grant to continue studies on rare neuroendocrine cancers
Second NET SPORE grant at Iowa focused on translating research into improved treatments for patients
Faculty awarded 2025 American Cancer Society seed grant through Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
Three early-career scientists have each been awarded a one-year, $40,000 American Cancer Society Institutional Resear
Tardigrade protein may help protect cancer patients from radiation side effects
Borrowing from one of nature’s toughest survivors, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care, MIT, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are creating a unique approach to protect healthy tissue during radiation therapy.
More Iowans surviving cancer than ever before
The Iowa Cancer Registry at the University of Iowa has tracked cancer cases, survival rates, and deaths from canc
Foaming in on cancer
Taking inspiration from the culinary arts, Iowa researchers are exploring gas-entrapping materials to boost chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
Faculty awarded 2024 ACS seed grant through Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
Four early-career scientists have each been awarded a one-year, $40,000 American Cancer Society Institutional Researc
Holden Researchers to Present New Cancer Research Data at 2024 AACR Annual Meeting
A total of 19 abstracts from University of Iowa and UI Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have been accep
Melanoma vaccine trial to start at UI
Trial will test whether a personalized mRNA vaccine combined with an immunotherapy prevents melanoma from recurring