Latest Holden News

A tardigrade (or water bear.) This hardy microscopic creature can withstand high levels of radiation.

Tardigrade protein may help protect cancer patients from radiation side effects

Wednesday, February 26, 2025
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.
Travis Fischer

Dare to Discover: Travis Fischer

Monday, February 17, 2025
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.
Cancer navigator

Breast cancer patients explain emotional toll of waiting to begin treatment

Monday, November 4, 2024
With support from a Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center pilot grant, a research team aims to improve the patient experience of the diagnostic period.

Student Spotlight: Laura Hovenga

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Faculty awarded 2024 ACS seed grant through Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Four 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.
bandaid used after vaccination

Melanoma vaccine trial to start at UI

Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Trial will test whether a personalized mRNA vaccine combined with an immunotherapy prevents melanoma from recurring

Drinkable, carbon monoxide-infused foam enhances effectiveness of experimental cancer therapy

Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Did smokers do better than non-smokers in a clinical trial for an experimental cancer treatment? That was the intriguing question that led University of Iowa researchers and their colleagues to develop a drinkable, carbon monoxide-infused foam that boosted the effectiveness of the therapy, known as autophagy inhibition, in mice and human cells. The findings were recently published in the journal Advanced Science.
SYRINGES WITH SIMULATED CHEMOTHERAPY DRUGS PHOTOGRAPHED ON FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 2023. COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY WITH GEMCITABINE AND DOCETAXEL HAS BEEN FOUND TO BE AN EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR NON-MUSCLE-INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER.

Bladder cancer breakthrough

Thursday, April 13, 2023
With the conventional first-line drug for early-stage bladder cancer in severe shortage, new therapies developed at Iowa are poised to lead a new wave of care.
Benjamin Miller, MD, MS performing surgery

Unique bone cancer treatment is customized to each patient’s anatomy

Thursday, October 20, 2022
The treatment uses 3D technology to precisely map tumor removal and develop prosthetics that are unique to each patient’s anatomy. It’s helping patients get back to their active lifestyles sooner.

Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center receives fourth renewal from the National Cancer Institute

Tuesday, April 27, 2021
University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center has received its fourth renewal as a comprehensive cancer center from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health.