Category: Research

Innovation 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.

Innovation Research

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

Research

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

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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.

Research

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

Innovation Research

Foaming in on cancer

Taking inspiration from the culinary arts, Iowa researchers are exploring gas-entrapping materials to boost chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

Research

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

Research

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

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Melanoma vaccine trial to start at UI

Trial will test whether a personalized mRNA vaccine combined with an immunotherapy prevents melanoma from recurring