Showing results for Spring 2022

Transitional States

Immunotherapy holds tantalizing promise for treating all forms of cancer. Now, Huda Salman is trying to harness it at IU School of Medicine. And it starts with getting a clinical trial off the ground.

Matthew Harris | May 03, 2022

Steady Beats

Even if a person survives a heart attack, its effects set the stage for future trauma. Rohan Dharmakumar outlines those risks—discoveries that could allow the Krannert Cardiovascular Research Institute to limit damage and prevent tragedy.

Bobby King | Apr 23, 2022

Situated north of downtown Indianapolis, the 11-story building comes with ample green space next to Senate Avenue to the east but offers a short walk for students for clinical rotations at the planned IU Health hospital.

Community of Health

A modern structure with nods to the university's architectural heritage, IU School of Medicine’s new academic health center will blend stability and humanity.

Bobby King | Apr 16, 2022

Mateusz Opyrchal Wants to Push Immunotherapy's Potential — Gently

Harnessing the immune system offers a path to fighting triple negative breast cancer. Yet it also requires the researcher to balance wiping out disease without causing it to attack the body.

Bobby King | Apr 16, 2022

Curiously Inventive

Chandan Sen’s search for disruptive solutions to complex problems earned him a place among the National Academy of Inventors.

Bobby King | Apr 01, 2022

Easing Minds

Evansville natives Bill and Mary Stone committed $34.2 million for a center to find breakthroughs in mental illness.

Bobby King | Apr 01, 2022

Catching their breath

A respiratory therapist’s expertise and longstanding ties proved essential in helping Liberia confront COVID-19.

Laura Gates | Mar 18, 2022

A Little Mercy Can Help

Mercy Odueyungbo aims for expertise and empathy to come through as she helps dermatology patients on her tv show.

Bobby King | Mar 18, 2022

Hal Broxmeyer, PhD, whose pioneering research helped develop cord-blood transplantation, delivers a lecture at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in January 2013.

'There was too much to learn': Remembering Hal Broxmeyer

The pioneer of cord blood transplantation was dogged in every pursuit—as a scientist, a mentor, a colleague, and as a father. He also leaves behind an indelible impact on the patients saved by his work and at IU School of Medicine.

Matthew Harris | Feb 14, 2022