Research Archives

December 14, 2015 Breakthrough discoveries highlighted as top biomedical advances of 2015

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Dec. 14, 2015)—The explanation of how a promising drug “tricks” cancer cells into dying and a discovery that may one day lead…

November 24, 2015 Slower aging may protect cells in the brain from Parkinson’s disease

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. (Nov. 24, 2015)—Humans have long sought to reduce the effects of aging. Now, there may be another reason to continue searching for…

November 23, 2015 Van Andel Research Institute professor elected as an AAAS Fellow

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Nov. 23, 2015)—Van Andel Research Institute’s Gerd Pfeifer, Ph.D., has been named a Fellow of the…

November 18, 2015 Van Andel Research Institute’s Hui Shen receives ovarian cancer research award

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Nov. 18, 2015)—The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF) announced yesterday that Van Andel Research Institute (VARI)

November 16, 2015 Van Andel Research Institute expands into new areas of Parkinson’s research

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Nov. 16, 2015)—Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) is continuing the expansion of its neurodegenerative disease research program, which aims to answer fundamental…

November 5, 2015 TCGA findings provide molecular background for second most common kidney cancer

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Nov. 5, 2015)—Scientists with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a National Institutes of Health-funded project, have…

October 29, 2015 NIH selects Van Andel Research Institute’s Biorepository as an integral player in large-scale cancer study

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Oct. 29, 2015)—Van Andel Research Institute’s (VARI) Biorepository has been selected as a Biospecimen Core Resource by the National…

September 24, 2015 Big data: $5M to widen 'bottleneck to discovery'

Note: This press release was written by the University of Michigan. Van Andel Research Institute’s (VARI) Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core was featured in the release.