Research Archives

October 28, 2015 NIH selects Van Andel Research Institute’s Biorepository as an integral player in large-scale cancer study

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Oct. 29, 2015)—Van Andel Research Institute’s (VARI) Biorepository has been selected as a Biospecimen Core Resource by the National…

September 23, 2015 Big data: $5M to widen 'bottleneck to discovery'

Note: This press release was written by the University of Michigan. Van Andel Research Institute’s (VARI) Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core was featured in the release.

September 23, 2015 Hundreds to attend Parkinson’s disease research symposium, patient meeting

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (September 24, 2015)—Almost 300 scientists, people with Parkinson’s, advocates and industry representatives will converge at Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) at the…

September 22, 2015 Van Andel Research Institute, University of Toledo find way to combat brain cancer spread

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Sept. 21, 2015)— Scientists at the University of Toledo Health Science Campus (UT) and Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) have discovered an…

September 13, 2015 Van Andel Research Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop lung cancer model

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (September 14, 2015)—Scientists are developing a new tool to better study one of the deadliest types of lung cancer. A multidisciplinary team,…

August 26, 2015 Researchers thwart cancer cells by triggering 'virus alert'

Note: This press release was written by John Hopkins Medicine. Dr. Stephen Baylin, who holds a joint appointment at Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) and at…

August 26, 2015 Researchers mimic viral infection in colon cancer stem cells, identify druggable target to potentially root out disease, end relapse

Note: This press release was written by Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Dr. Peter Jones, Van Andel Research Institute’s (VARI) research director, is a contributing author on…

August 9, 2015 Atomic-level defense secrets revealed

EAST LANSING, Mich. (August 10, 2015) Just as nations around the globe carefully guard their defense secrets, so do plants. New research in…