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Bri O’Leary, PhD, in the Joseph Cullen lab on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024.

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Marion Vanneste, postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics on Friday, Dec. 2, 2022.

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FDA Greenlights Clinical Trials for College of Pharmacy Ovarian Cancer Research

Friday, October 2, 2026
The FDA has cleared Dean Jill Kolesar's novel ovarian cancer therapy for human clinical trials, using extracellular vesicles to turn tumor-supporting immune cells into tumor-killing ones.
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UI Health Care is changing the lives of cancer patients

Thursday, August 27, 2026
UI Health Care researchers and physicians contributed to three new cancer therapies for pancreatic cancer and melanoma
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Melanoma vaccine tested at UI

Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Companies announce strong results for personalized mRNA vaccine in preventing melanoma from recurring

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