Mike and Josie Harper Cancer Research Institute
About
Investigators in the Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI) are dedicated to conducting innovative and integrative research that confronts the complex challenges of cancer. Our programmatic structure fosters multi-disciplinary cancer research by promoting interactions among research groups with distinct expertise and by training young scientists to work across scientific fields. Clinical partnerships provide key translational insight and strengthen the mission of discovery.
HCRI Mission Statement:
Innovative and integrative research confronting the complex challenges of cancer
News
New paper offers insights into how cancer cells avoid cell death
June 18, 2013 • Categories: Announcements and Homepage
A new study by a team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame provides an important new insight into how cancer cells are able to avoid the cell death process. The findings may reveal a novel chemotherapeutic approach to prevent the spread of cancers.
Metastasis, the spread of cancer from one organ to other parts of the body, relies on cancer cells’ ability to evade a cell death process called anoikis, according to Zachary T. Schafer, Coleman Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology at Notre Dame. Metastasizing cancer cells are able to block anoikis, which normally results from detachment from the extracellular matrix. However, Schafer notes that the molecular mechanisms that cancer cells detached from the extracellular matrix use to survive have not been well understood.
Bilgicer Receives Leukemia Research Foundation Award
June 14, 2013 • Categories: Announcements and Homepage
Dr. Basar Bilgicer has received a Leukemia Research Foundation Award.
This is a one-year, $100k grant
for his work "Designer Nanoparticles to Target Multiple Myeloma and Its Microenvironment."
Dovichi earns ANACHEM award from Association of Analytical Chemistry
June 14, 2013 • Categories: Announcements and Homepage
Norman Dovichi, the Grace-Rupley Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has received the 2013 ANACHEM Award from the Association of Analytical Chemistry (ANACHEM) for his achievements as an analytical chemist and educator.
Events
Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium
Fri Aug 2, 2013 • Jordan Hall of Science • Calendars: Homepage and HCRI Events Calendar
The Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held on Friday, August 2. Details will follow at a later date.
Dooley Society & Emil T. Hoffman Lecture: Mark Walsh, M.D.
Sat Sep 21, 2013 • Raclin-Carmichael Hall Auditorium, Indiana University School of Medicine • Calendars: Homepage and HCRI Events Calendar
The speaker for the Emil T. Hofman Lecture will be Mark Walsh, M.D.
The time of the presentation is TBD.
Lectures are free and guests are welcome. Please bring your family and friends. CMEs will be provided. The level of CMEs is dependent on the content of the lecture.







