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The Emerging Frontier: Cancer Neuroscience
By Emery Haley, Joe Floramo and Nadia Dehghani 2021 Origins of Cancer student organizers Each year, scientists-in-training at Van Andel Institute Graduate School organize the Origins of Cancer...
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Graduate student spotlight: Exploring the origins of epigenetic marks in cancer
Throughout the year, we highlight Van Andel Institute Graduate School’s doctoral students. This month, we’re featuring Nathan Spix, an M.D./Ph.D. student in the lab of Dr. Peter Laird. As a...
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Where cancer and neuroscience meet: A look ahead to the 2021 Origins of...
This year’s Origins of Cancer symposium explores the intersection of cancer and neuroscience — an area that holds great promise for better understanding the complex biological interactions that give...
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Meet the scientist behind the science: Dr. Hong Wen
Every cell in the human body has the same genetic instruction manual, but different cells read from different chapters to do their jobs. Van Andel Institute’s Dr. Hong Wen investigates how this process...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about sarcoma and bone cancer
July is Sarcoma and Bone Cancer Awareness month, and we wanted to take a deeper look at what these diseases are, whom they may affect and what’s happening in related research right now. What is a...
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Study reveals source of DNA mutations in melanoma
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (JULY 30, 2021) — The mutations that give rise to melanoma result from a chemical conversion in DNA fueled by sunlight — not just a DNA copying error as previously believed, reports...
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Meet the scientist behind the science: Dr. Xiaobing Shi
To find ways to better treat cancer, we need to “decode it.” For Van Andel Institute’s Dr. Xiaobing Shi, that means understanding how the instructions in our DNA are read and carried out through a...
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Van Andel Institute welcomes cell signaling expert Dr. Stephanie Grainger to...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Aug. 5, 2021) — Stephanie Grainger, Ph.D., hopes to uncover the secrets of stem cells and their role in cancer, and she’s investigating specific type of cellular communication to...
View ArticleVan Andel Institute earns prestigious grant to train postdoctoral fellows in...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Aug. 18, 2021) — The National Cancer Institute has awarded Van Andel Institute a five-year, $1.7 million grant to establish a cutting-edge training program for postdoctoral fellows...
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Coriell Institute for Medical Research, Van Andel Institute awarded estimated...
Estimated at $12.4 million, this five-year grant supports a nationwide team of researchers investigating epigenetic therapies for cancer The Coriell Institute for Medical Research and Van Andel...
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Structural biologist Dr. Evan Worden joins Van Andel Institute’s faculty
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Sept. 30, 2021) — Van Andel Institute has welcomed structural biologist and epigenetics expert Evan Worden, Ph.D., to its growing faculty. Evan Worden, Ph.D. As an assistant...
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American Cancer Society grant to support Van Andel Institute research into...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Oct. 20, 2021) — Van Andel Institute’s Scott Rothbart, Ph.D., has earned a four-year, $792,000 Research Scholar’s Grant from the American Cancer Society to investigate the...
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Meet the scientist behind the science: Dr. Scott Rothbart
Earlier today, we announced that Van Andel Institute Associate Professor Dr. Scott Rothbart has been awarded a Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society. The award will support research...
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Five Van Andel Institute scientists named to elite Highly Cited Researchers List
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Nov. 16, 2021) — Van Andel Institute scientists Patrik Brundin, M.D., Ph.D., Peter A. Jones, Ph.D., D.Sc. (hon), Russell Jones, Ph.D., Peter W. Laird, Ph.D., and X. Edward Zhou,...
View ArticleWhat is cancer, and how can research help?
What is cancer? Cancer is a blanket term for more than 100 related diseases that have a core characteristic in common — unchecked cell growth. At the most basic level, cancers occur when cells divide...
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Van Andel Institute welcomes epigeneticist Dr. Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf to...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Dec. 7, 2021) — Epigenetics expert Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf, Ph.D., is joining Van Andel Institute’s growing faculty, a move that will further expand VAI’s research into the...
View ArticleA year — and a quarter century — in review
As 2021 comes to a close, so too does Van Andel Institute’s celebration of our 25th anniversary. The Institute’s story began with a vision: to make Grand Rapids a world leader in biomedical research...
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Graduate student spotlight: Exploring biomarkers to improve pancreatic cancer...
Throughout the year, we highlight Van Andel Institute Graduate School’s doctoral students. This month, we’re featuring Alfredo Reyes Oliveras, a Ph.D. student in the lab of Dr. Brian Haab. Alfredo...
View ArticleHow do molecular ‘switches’ impact colorectal cancer? And what could they...
Throughout our lives, we’ve been reminded that eating a nutritious diet is important for our overall good health and helps reduce the risk of many cancers, including colorectal cancer. But there also...
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Cellular barcodes could provide crucial insights into ovarian cancer
Van Andel Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Ben Johnson has earned a Mentored Investigator Grant from Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance to support a groundbreaking approach to ovarian cancer research —...
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