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Harper Cancer Research Institute to hold Fifth Annual Research Day

Author: William G. Gilroy

Harper Cancer Research Institute’s Fifth Annual Research Day on April 4 (Monday) will gather cancer researchers from the University of Notre Dame and Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend (IUSM-SB) at the Morris Inn for a day of exchange and discussion. The event is free and open to the public.

Nicholas Myers and Claire Bowen win $2,500 at 3MT competition

Author: Marissa Gebhard

At the Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT) on Wednesday, March 16, nine graduate students at University of Notre Dame competed for prize money and a bid to the regional championships. Three graduate students from the College of Science competed. Nicholas Myers in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry won second...

Heidelberg exchange program promotes research training

Author: Gene Stowe

Through Notre Dame International, the University of Notre Dame and Heidelberg University have established a collaboration in which students from Germany have taken classes and conducted research at Notre Dame since August, part of an ongoing, broad collaboration with Heidelberg University that was established in 2104. Alex Dimmling and Lennart...

You Be the Chemist comes to Notre Dame

Author: Gene Stowe

Notre Dame hosted 22 local middle school students in the first St. Joseph County You Be the Chemist (YBTC) Local Challenge, sponsored by Dow Chemical Company, in the Jordan Hall of Science on March 12. Chemistry graduate students Karen Bailey, Kasey Clear, and Emily Amenson organized the event in collaboration...

Science alumnus transforms developing countries’ prison medical care

Author: Gene Stowe

Notre Dame alumnus Dr. John May ND '84 switched his major from engineering to preprofessional studies when he was inspired by the story of physician-humanitarian Dr. Tom Dooley.  Later, he earned an M.D. at Loyola-Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago, and dedicated his career to providing medical care in jails and prisons, both in...

Helping to stop colorectal cancer by identifying metastasis chances early

Author: Brandi Klingerman

Colorectal cancer, one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in the United States, is not a commonly discussed disease. Often symptomless in early stages, the cancer is more difficult to treat as it progresses, requiring chemotherapy in later stages. Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are working on a...

Graduate students on the clock to explain research, win competition

Author: Sue Ryan

Nine University of Notre Dame graduate students will compete for prize money and a bid to the regional championships during the Three Minute Thesis competition on Wednesday (March 16). Known as 3MT, the competition features graduate students across all disciplines explaining their research in clear and succinct language appropriate for...

Notre Dame mourns the passing of junior Theresa Sagartz

Author: Dennis Brown

Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame, has asked that the Notre Dame community keep Theresa Sagartz and her family in their thoughts and prayers.

HCRI Director's Message, Winter 2016

Author: Jenna Bilinski

In his last State of the Union speech, President Obama unexpectedly called for a “moonshot” to make America the country that cures cancer “once and for all”.  The original “moonshot”, the Apollo program, rallied a nation in fascination as we put a man on the moon and what was once...

ND Cancer Researchers Highlighted in Science Daily

Author: Jenna Bilinski

Science Daily recently highlighted three Notre Dame cancer researchers, Dr. Jeremiah Zartman, Dr. Siyuan Zhang and Dr. David Hoelzle, for their novel approach  that generates a high resolution, 3-D fluorescent staining of tissue microbiopsies in a microfluidic device without destroying the tissue. Click here to read  Science Daily's  Better Biopsies Through Biofluidics. 

Notre Dame Researchers to Participate, Speak at 2016 PittCon

Author: Brandi Klingerman

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame will participate in the 2016 PittCon Conference and Expo, the world’s largest annual premier conference on laboratory science. Read more...

Kashiv publishes study on imaging trace elements in organelles

Author: Gene Stowe

Yoav Kashiv, a visiting scholar in the Department of Physics, is the lead author on a recently-published paper about breakthrough success at imaging trace elements in individual organelles within the cell. The paper, “Imaging trace element distributions in single organelles and subcellular features”, was published in February in the journal...

Stack Lobbies on Capitol Hill

Author: Jenna Bilinski

Stack Lobbies on Capitol Hill On February 29 and March 1 2016, Harper Cancer Research Institute Director Dr. Sharon Stack was back at it again on Capitol Hill joining members of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance to advocate for the programs and research necessary for better ovarian cancer treatment. Advocates went...

Rare Disease Day brings researchers, clinicians and families together

Author: Shadia Ajam and Marissa Gebhard

This past Friday and Saturday (February 26-27), the Boler-Parseghian Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases hosted a research symposia and community discussion on rare diseases. Over 100 researchers, families, and clinicians came together to share insights into rare diseases such as Niemann-Pick Type C, Sphrintzen Goldberg syndrome, Rett syndrome, primary...