May 16, 2012
Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) and Dako, the Danish-based, worldwide supplier of cancer diagnostic tools today announce an agreement to license, manufacture and distribute cancer diagnostics utilizing the MET4 Antibody.
May 15, 2012
Van Andel Education Institute (VAEI) has signed an agreement with Wayland Union Schools to provide inquiry-based professional development to the science faculty at Wayland Union High School with the potential of taking this initiative district-wide over time.
May 14, 2012
Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D., winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of RNA splicing, will be honored May 23 at Van Andel Institute as the first recipient of the Han Mo Koo Memorial Award.
May 14, 2012
A team of international scientists has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the cause of bile duct cancer, a deadly type of liver cancer. By identifying several new genes frequently mutated in bile duct cancers, researchers are paving the way for better understanding of how bile duct cancers develop. Their discovery is published online in Nature Genetics.
April 19, 2012
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a new stem cell in the adult brain. These cells can proliferate and form several different cell types - most importantly, they can form new brain cells. Scientists hope to take advantage of the finding to develop methods to heal and repair disease and injury in the brain.
April 10, 2012
Grandville High School Women's Soccer will host a Purple Community - 100% Hope soccer game on April 13, 2012 to raise money for cancer research at Van Andel Institute (VAI) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The team held their first Purple Game to support VAI in 2009, sparking the creation of what is now a statewide fundraising initiative.
April 03, 2012
Spectrum Health and Van Andel Research Institute are part of a new national research effort that could help patients with multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer.
February 16, 2012
Van Andel Institute announces a statewide initiative to empower supporters in communities, schools and other organizations to increase cancer awareness and raise funds for cancer research with the launch of Purple Community Thursday, February 16 at a 3:00 p.m. pep rally at the Institute.
February 06, 2012
A recent discovery by Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists enables the prediction of patient sensitivity to proposed drug therapies for glioblastoma – the most common and most aggressive malignant brain tumor in humans.
February 02, 2012
Combination drug therapy may be needed to combat the most common form of lung cancer, according to a recent study by Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) and its affiliate, the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).
January 31, 2012
A new study reveals substantial differences – by both surgeon and institution – in the rates of follow-up surgeries for women who underwent a partial mastectomy for treatment of breast cancer.
January 23, 2012
A recent Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) study published in the journal Science investigating the molecular structure and function of an essential plant hormone could profoundly change our understanding of a key cell process, and might ultimately lead to the development of new drugs for a variety of diseases.
