Research

Collaboration and connection are critically important in science.

Now in its second year, the Winter Neurodegeneration Summit provides an outstanding opportunity for early career…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Feb. 18, 2025) — The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named Van Andel Institute’s Travis Walton, Ph.D., to its 2025 class of…

Earlier this week, The Lancet published results of a phase 3 clinical trial that explored whether the Type 2 diabetes medication exenatide could…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Jan. 29, 2025) — Van Andel Institute has recruited Bang-An Wang, Ph.D., a neuroscientist who studies brain development and the roots of progressive neurological…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Jan. 27, 2025) — A person’s lifetime risk for cancer may begin before they are even born, reports a paradigm-shifting study by

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Jan. 16, 2025) — Van Andel Institute’s free Public Lecture Series returns Feb. 5. This year’s lineup will cover topics such as brain cells,…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Jan. 13, 2025) — An experimental blood test for pancreatic cancer that was developed by Van Andel Institute and University of Pittsburgh…

Each year, more than 300,000 women in the U.S. receive the same harrowing news:

You have breast cancer.    

These four words become etched in…