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June 6, 2009 Purdue and IU Cancer Center directors team up for event
April 21, 2009 Purdue Cancer Center staff member receives Tippy Connects Top 10 Under 40 award
April 18, 2009 Purdue Cancer Center Challenge gets hits on YouTube. Check it out!
April 10, 2009 Purdue Cancer Center selects recipient for first Challenge Research Award
April 8, 2009 Center Director featured in Indiana Business Journal
April 7, 2009 Runners, walkers and volunteers sought for Purdue Cancer Center Challenge
March 16, 2009 Nanoscopic probes can track down and attack cancer cells
February 17, 2009 Cancer Center and WL Sagamore Lions Club symposium to host National Institutes of Health official
February 5, 2009 Purdue Cancer Center Director testifies for state-wide smoking ban
February 3, 2009 A Study in pet dogs with cancer: improving the outlook for people with cancer, as well as the outlook for “man’s best friend”
February 3, 2009 Sophie Lelievre's research highlighted on the congressionally directed medical research programs-Department of Defense website
February 2, 2009 Coach Hope joins Purdue Cancer Center Challenge, asks community to 'Get Up, Get Fit, Give Back!'
November 21, 2008 Board of Trustees approves new title - Timothy L. Ratliff appointed the Robert Wallace Miller Director of the Purdue Cancer Center
October 29, 2008 Purdue Cancer Center establishes breast cancer research group
October 27, 2008 Purdue honors 44 faculty, entrepreneurs, and inventors...10 Purdue Cancer Center researchers!
September 2, 2008 Research creates tool to quickly analyze where drugs go in the body
August 1, 2008 New insight on Prostate Cancer from US officials and PCC Director, Tim Ratliff, who helped in the development of the PSA
May 29, 2008 Purdue Cancer Center scientist appointed Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
May 2, 2008 Imaging yields insights into 'nanomedicine' for cancer treatment
April 9, 2008 Coach Martin likely to return for the Purdue Cancer Center Challenge
April 4, 2008 Cancer Center's run/walk Challenge aims for awareness
February 19, 2008 Unleashing a cure!
February 10, 2008 Purdue cancer research center receives $2.5 million gift from alums, Pete and Sally Kay
February 5, 2008 Detecting cancer without drawing a drop of blood
January 29, 2008 Registration open for the inaugural Purdue Cancer Center Challenge 5K run/walk April 12
January 22, 2008 New technique quickly detects cancer indicator
January 9, 2008 Global leader in cancer treatment research to give lecture at Purdue
January 8, 2008 MBA students raise cancer awareness with facial hair
January 22, 2008 PCC participates in WBCA's Think Pink initiative on Jan. 27
December 27, 2007 Preventing cancer a New Year’s resolution to keep in 2008
December 17, 2007 Purdue researcher, Dan Raftery works with Research Park to improve early cancer diagnosis
November 30, 2007 PCC researcher, Jue Chen and Amy Davidson, obtain a snapshot charifying how materials entrer cancer cells
November 16, 2007 Tumors in dogs provide human cancer information
November 2, 2007 Purdue names Marietta Harrison as director of Discovery Park's Oncological Sciences Center
October 25, 2007 Research study looks for participants with bone cancer pain
October 15, 2007 Drs. Jue Chen, Mark Cushman, Richard Kuhn, Michael Rossman, and Ross Weatherman receive Seed for Success Award
October 15, 2007 Gold nanorods shed light on new approach to fighting cancer
October 14, 2007 Women's Health Issues Forum taking place Sunday October 14
October 10, 2007 Purdue Research Foundation honors PCC faculty inventors, entrepreneurs
September 28, 2007 Purdue researcher looks at racial role in breast cancer tumors
September 26, 2007 Former Senator and PCC board member donates $1.5 million in son's honor
September 4, 2007 Purdue researchers develop technology to detect cancer by scanning surface veins
July 30, 2007 Gold nanoparticles may pan out as tool for cancer diagnosis
July 17, 2007 Purdue-IU researchers explore new method for early disease diagnosis
July 10, 2007 Purdue, S. Korean researchers collaborate on nanomedicine project
June 13, 2007 Bacteria ferry nanoparticles into cells for early diagnosis, treatment
April 5, 2007 Purdue researchers use 'nanopore channels' to precisely detect DNA
May 25, 2007 Friends For An Earlier Breast Cancer Test award seed grant to Cancer Center faculty
May 14, 2007 Companies reap venture capital connections from Discovery Park entrepreneurship camp
April 27, 2007 Purdue Cancer Center celebrates gift and new director
March 26, 2007 Purdue Cancer Center appoints new director
March 12, 2007 Purdue Cancer Center to join the Purduettes for fourth annual fundraiser
February 12, 2007 Scientists use nanoparticle to discover disease-causing proteins
January 30, 2007 New single-molecule imaging system may help diagnose and treat cancer
January 17, 2007 Cancer deaths decline for 2nd straight year
December 13, 2006 Lilly Endowment awards $50 million to Butler, Purdue pharmacy programs
November 29, 2006 Endocyte awarded patent for vitamin-targeted imaging agent
October 27, 2006 Purdue named as NIH Nanomedicine Center
October 11, 2006 PCC member Phil Low named the recipient of the Outstanding Commercialization Award from Purdue
October 6, 2006 Associate Director, Marietta Harrison, receives the Collaborator of the Year Award from Walther Cancer Institute
October 4, 2006 Images develop clinical applications for new DESI technology
September 12, 2006 Purdue-IU team selected as National Cancer Institute proteomics center
September 12, 2006 Serum marker discovered for detection and monitoring cancer
September 12, 2006 Protocol for early detection of lung cancer found
September 6, 2006 Purdue Researcher Lights the Way to Better Drug Delivery
May 16, 2006 Researcher lights the way to better drug delivery
Summer, 2006 Purdue Cancer Center receives National Cancer Institute Supplement Award for summer research program
May 16, 2006 Endocyte and Purdue researchers announce new patent
April 17, 2006 The Board of Trustees approved faculty promotions
March 16, 2006 Purdue chemical-analysis method promises fast results
March 6, 2006 New cell imaging method identifies aggressive cancer cells early
February 20,2006 Purduettes join Purdue Cancer Center for third annual fund-raiser
January 1, 2006 Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new mouse model for pancreatic cancer.
November 9, 2005 Purdue, Vanderbilt scientists develop new cancer detection technique
October 25, 2005 Purdue's gold nanorods brighten future for medical imaging
October 12, 2005 Cancer research careers will get head start from gifts to Purdue
May 2005 Dr. Rashid Brashir cited in NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer publication