The cancer’s reliance on a sugar metabolizing pathway may be an exploitable weakness.

Three early-career scientists have each been awarded a one-year, $40,000 American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant through University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Radiation has been a mainstay cancer therapy for almost 100 years. But its potent cell-killing power, so effective against tumors, is a double-edged sword when healthy tissue gets in the way.

Cancer Biology PhD student Travis Fischer has been selected for the University of Iowa's 2025 Dare to Discover campaign for his work in immunotherapies.