IU, Purdue to receive $1 million cancer grant

Cancer researchers at IU and Purdue University are getting a $1 million boost to train a new generation of scientists.

The 5-year grant from the Walther Cancer Foundation will be split between IU’s Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center and Purdue’s Oncological Sciences Center.

The grant will fund a new program through the IU-Purdue Cancer Care Engineering project to help pay for exchanges of medical fellows, engineers and scientists between the two schools.

IU and Purdue will each invest an additional $250,000 in the project. Its goal is to train postdoctoral fellows at IU’s clinics and for medical fellows to work at Purdue’s laboratories.

School officials said getting medical fellows and engineering and physical sciences postdoctoral fellows to work jointly on cancer research will lead to new cancer treatments.