cancer research

  1. May 16, 2024

    Friese named vice provost for academic and faculty affairs

    Christopher R. Friese, a national authority in measuring and improving the quality of cancer care delivery, has been named the next vice provost for academic and faculty affairs in the Office of the Provost.

  2. April 5, 2024

    Statewide effort to study how environment affects cancer risk

    Researchers at U-M’s Rogel Cancer Center plan to use a $13 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study how exposures to toxic metals are impacting the cancer risk of Michigan residents.

  3. February 20, 2024

    $3.7M NIH grant will boost study of new cancer therapy

    In a major advancement for cancer research at U-M, researcher Mats Ljungman has been awarded a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

  4. January 5, 2023

    Tracking treatment in real time promises safer cancer therapy

    Radiation, used to treat half of all cancer patients, can be measured during treatment for the first time with precise 3D imaging developed at U-M.

  5. October 20, 2021

    U-M researchers to track cancer risk from environmental exposures

    A new study from researchers at the School of Public Health and Rogel Cancer Center will describe and quantify the impact of known and suspected environmental exposures on cancer risk.

  6. November 10, 2020

    Glioblastoma nanomedicine eradicates brain cancer in mice

    A new synthetic protein nanoparticle capable of slipping past the nearly impermeable blood-brain barrier in mice could deliver cancer-killing drugs directly to malignant brain tumors, new U-M research shows.

  7. October 23, 2019

    School of Dentistry awarded $3.8M ‘Cancer Moonshot’ research grant

    Three U-M faculty members are lead collaborators on research into new cancer prevention therapies that are funded by a $3.8 million federal grant and part of the national Cancer Moonshot Initiative.

  8. September 30, 2019

    Screening for lung cancer based on risk could save lives

    Changing the way individuals are selected to be screened for lung cancer could prevent 14 percent of lung cancer deaths per year, according to a group that includes researchers from the School of Public Health.

  9. July 31, 2018

    Rogel Cancer Center receives five-year, $33.4M NCI grant renewal

    The National Cancer Institute has awarded U-M’s Rogel Cancer Center a grant worth $33.4 million over five years, and renewed the center’s designation as a “comprehensive cancer center.”