Kansas State University undergraduate student Kristina Bigelow, senior in biology, Elsmore, is being honored for her research on the proteins of colon cancer cells.

K-State’s cancer research gets a boost from the university’s Johnson Cancer Research Center through the help of private donors who support its mission. With the funds that are raised through private donations, the center offers cancer research faculty and students around $500,000 a year in competitive awards to support innovative research, equipment purchases, mentoring of student researchers and more.

Angela Grommet, junior in chemistry, Wichita, is working with two classes of chemical compounds used in pharmaceuticals and in drug delivery devices. They can potentially aid drug delivery by forming 3-D molecular capsules to encase medicine, such as anti-cancer drugs, until they reach the site in the body where they are needed. This would make them less taxing on other parts of the human body.

Cancer research is a common factor for both Kansas State University students recognized by the 2012 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship competition.

Angela Grommet, junior in chemistry, Wichita, is the university’s 68th Goldwater scholar, and Sterling Braun, junior in premedicine and microbiology, Fort Scott, is an honorable mention.

2-day Barbecue
Fri & Sat April 20 & 21
Ray’s Apple Market (west)
Hang out, bring food, buy chances for prizes
Sponsor: K-State AKPsi business fraternity

Family Feud to Fight Cancer
Fri. Apr. 13, 2012
7-9pm
Manhattan Country Club
$15

The K-State community is host to many programs and organizations that make a difference in the lives of students and citizens of Manhattan.

Alpha Kappa Psi, a student-led business fraternity based in K-State’s College of Business, has worked and will continue to work on behalf of the The Johnson Center for Basic Cancer Research, which utilizes faculty and students to further education and understanding of cancer, and work towards a cure.

Mark Weiss, professor of anatomy and physiology and associate director of K-State’s Johnson Cancer Research Center, is researching genetic models for spinal cord injury or diseases such as Parkinson’s disease.

K-State’s Johnson Cancer Research Center gave awards to 47 outstanding undergraduates for their cancer-related research. Funded by private donations, an annual award serves to increase awareness of cancer and encourages more research to be done in the field.

Friday night, July 27, 2012, the 6th annual Tough Enough to Wear Pink rodeo will be hosted by the Kaw Valley Rodeo Association during the Riley County Fair, to raise awareness of breast and other cancers, and funds for cancer research at K-State. Even the horses wear pink!

The Regier family will host the 15th annual tournament on Fri., Sept. 7, 2012, at the Manhattan Country Club in Manhattan, Kansas.

SUNNY 102.5 and COACH BILL SNYDER urge you to join them this football season in the challenge to help K-State tackle cancer!

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Come to the GROOVIEST party of the year! Shake your booty with host & emcee Dave Lewis!
Fri, Oct 19, 2012 – 7 pm
Houston Street Ballroom
Manhattan, Kansas

The Johnson Cancer Research Center at Kansas State University is giving 47 undergraduate students the chance to conduct cancer research projects.

Married biologists Rollie Clem and Lorena Passarelli are being awarded a four-year $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, to study how mosquitoes transmit viruses.

Brian Lindshield, human nutrition, is studying foods and dietary supplements that may reduce the risk of prostate cancer.

Retired K-State faculty couple who established first undergraduate cancer research award for work in humanities is now establishing planned gift for several areas.

K-State cancer research center scientists Tonatiuh Melgarejo, human nutrition, and Frank Blecha, immunophysiology, and team isolated and characterized a natural antimicrobial peptide that helps dogs to better fight pathogens — including different bacteria, viruses and fungi.

The director of K-State’s Johnson Cancer Research Center was featured on TV’s Kansas First News. He discussed his and his wife’s personal experiences with cancer as well as the cancer research center and his own research.

Kansas First News anchor Kelli Stegeman shares his story.

Rob Denell thought he was done with cancer after his wife beat the disease. No more chemotherapy by his wife’s side. No more long drives to hospitals. He was about to say goodbye to cancer.

A new organization called the K-State Cancer Fighters has joined the K-State campus in collaboration with the Johnson Center for Basic Cancer Research.

Dave Lewis, public address announcer for K-State football and men’s basketball games and a Riley County commissioner, will host and emcee the second annual Pink & Purple Polyester Party to raise funds for K-State’s cancer research center and to celebrate the life of his late wife, Elena.

Golfers can help Kansas State University’s fight against cancer at the 14th annual Rob Regier Memorial Golf Tournament, Friday, Oct. 7. Proceeds will support K-State’s Terry C. Johnson Center for Basic Cancer Research.

Kansas State University professor Masaaki Tamura is trying to create a patient-friendly treatment to help the more than 220,000 people who are diagnosed with lung cancer each year.

Breast Cancer Survivor Footprints: An Artful Journey
by Aribel Leon-Lynn, Cancer Survivor and Artist, Manhattan, Kan.

Fri., Oct. 14, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Holiday Inn at the Campus, Landon Room
1641 Anderson Ave. (across from K-State Union), Manh., Kan.

Karsten Evans, a senior in biochemistry, is ready to take on cancer one cell at a time. He joined a cancer research team his sophomore year and is currently working with a new device he helped create that examines the content of single cells.

Susan J. Brown, biology, has been named a fellow of the Entomological Society of America. Brown is one of 10 professors chosen for the honor.

The Kaw Valley Rodeo Association is hosting its fifth annual Tough Enough to Wear Pink night at the rodeo Friday, July 22, to raise awareness of breast and other cancers and to raise funds for Kansas State University’s Johnson Center for Basic Cancer Research.

A K-State undergraduate in biology and premedicine is exploring the link between cancer research, treatment and detection by looking at a common tie: peptide bonds.

Breast cancer researcher Annelise Nguyen and undergraduate student Derek Schneweis, who is studying a virus through a new branch of vector biology, are being honored for their efforts in continuing and encouraging research excellence at Kansas State University.

Several members of the Kansas State University chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, the national freshman honor society, are receiving national and local scholarship awards for the 2011-2012 academic year. Parker Rayl, one of our center’s undergraduate cancer researchers, is one of them.

Several Kansas State University faculty members are being recognized by their colleges for excellence in teaching, research, service and advising.

Chloe Callahan has lost family members and a friend to cancer. The Kansas State University sophomore doesn’t want to lose more, so she’s taking on the disease in the laboratory.

Biology Professor Susan Brown will present the lecture “Flies are Fine, but Beetles are Better: The Story of a Model Organism” at 3:30 Thur., April 28.

Food packages and medicine bottles often list a dizzying array of chemicals and ingredients on their labels. But for Kansas State University chemistry major Angela Grommet, reading the ingredients isn’t confusing — it’s interesting.

Getting into the lab to perform cancer research as an undergraduate has been a career-changing decision for K-State’s Sterling Braun.

A new biophysical and biochemical study may lead to better understanding of how structural flexibility controls the interaction of a protein that is closely involved with cancer, according to a Kansas State University biochemist Jianhan Chen.

Johnson cancer research center-supported undergraduate student Gage Brummer has been awarded a Barry M. Goldwater scholarship.

Dr. Jun Li, chemistry, is applying nanotechnology to create biosensor to detect cancer and pathogens.

Research with small particles has led to a big-time award for K-State researcher Vikas Berry, assistant professor of chemical engineering, who has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award for his work involving graphene.

Samantha ‘Sam’ Wisely, K-State associate professor of biology, has been named one of the top 150 scientists in Kansas.

Four K-State students will compete for 2011 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships. The students are: Sterling Braun, Fort Scott; Joshua Ericson, Junction City; Gage Brummer, Prairie Village; and Angela Grommet, Wichita.

At K-State’s Terry C. Johnson Center for Basic Cancer Research, laboratories are like games of hide-and-seek — the more, the merrier.

Cancer, according to statistics from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, has become the leading cause of death in Kansas, surpassing heart disease.

But efforts by Kansas State University are helping to tackle the disease in several ways.

Nearly 50 undergraduates at Kansas State University are heading to the laboratory this semester to join the fight against cancer.

Johnson cancer researcher center nutrition scientist George Wang and his team could be accused of carrying Purple Pride to extremes.

The late David and Janice von Riesen have made gifts through the Janice W. von Riesen Trust of more than $325,000 to Kansas State University’s A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications and Terry C. Johnson Center for Basic Cancer Research.

Kansas State University chemistry professor Stefan Bossmann is on a fishing trip. But instead of catfish or bass, he is looking to snag a new treatment for cancer.

Anna Whitfield, assistant professor of plant pathology, was named an up-and-comer in virology by the American Phytopathological Society.

What do the genes of nematodes and big bluestem grass have to do with ecosystems? For Michael Herman, associate professor of biology, they mean a lot. Herman’s research specializes in ecological genomics, a growing area of study.

Despite making what are arguably some of the biggest advancements in research on the animal immune system, Frank Blecha puts his students’ success before his own.

When two scientists were recently awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for their work with graphene, K-State’s Dr. Vikas Berry was thrilled with the recognition of the new two-dimensional material.

Kay Farley is pretty proud of her pink shoes. Taking her foot out of her pink slip-on tennis shoes, she showed off the breast cancer ribbon on the white sole of her shoes.

Breast Cancer Awareness Luncheon
Fri., Oct. 15, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Holiday Inn at the Campus, Landon Room
Cancer and Families: Up Close and Personal
by Suzanne Mayo-Theus

Dr. Michael Herman’s research and the upcoming Ecological Genomics Symposium continue to make the university a leader in the emerging field of ecological genomics.

Developmental geneticist Dr. Susan Brown, K-State professor of biology, is one of two recipients of the 2010 Commerce Bank Distinguished Graduate Faculty awards at Kansas State University.

Ladies are invited to enjoy lunch with friends as they learn about breast health and breast cancer at the Pink Power Luncheon for Breast Cancer Awareness from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 15, in the Landon Room at Manhattan’s Holiday Inn at the Campus, 1641 Anderson Ave.

Dave Lewis, public address announcer for K-State football and men’s basketball, will speak up for cancer research when he throws a 30th birthday party for Kansas State University’s Johnson Center for Basic Cancer Research.

“The Future of Cancer Research and Treatment in Kansas” will be presented by Barbara F. Atkinson, MD, Exec. Vice Chancellor of the KU Medical Center and Exec. Dean of the KU School of Medicine, on Sept. 28.

K-State Collegian: Barbara Atkinson, executive vice chancellor of the University of Kansas Medical Center and executive dean of the KU School of Medicine, discussed the higher rates of smoking and related lung cancers in rural Kansas during her speech in Forum Hall last night.

K-State Collegian: The Wareham Opera House sang the blues on Sept. 26 with the Blues Band Beatin’ Breast Cancer Benefit concert, featuring the Red State Blues Band. The concert celebrated the life of Deb Lundberg and raised funds for K-State cancer research.

Red State Blues Band played at 7-9 p.m. on Sun. Sept. 26 at the Wareham Opera House, “to celebrate the life of Deb Lundberg and raise money to beat the disease that took her away from us.”

“The Future of Cancer Research and Treatment in Kansas” will be presented at K-State by Dr. Barbara Atkinson, exec. vice chancellor of the KU Medical Center & exec. dean of the KU School of Medicine, at 7:30 p.m. Tue., Sept. 28, in Forum Hall at the K-State Student Union.

K-State has been a issued a patent for a plentiful and noncontroversial source of stem cells from a substance in the umbilical cord, thanks to work by cancer researchers Drs. Deryl Troyer and Mark Weiss, and others.

Understanding how cancer cells communicate with each other and how to enhance their receptiveness to drug treatments is the focus of promising work by Annelise Nguyen, assistant professor of toxicology in the department of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology at K-State’s College of Veterinary Medicine.

K-State cancer researcher Anna Zolkiewska and her team are investigating mutation within the ADAM12 gene of the A Disintegrin and Metalloprotease family, or ADAM family, and its role in breast cancer. “We want to know whether ADAM12 is a good guy or a bad guy in breast cancer.”

Golfers can help K-State fight cancer at the 13th annual Rob Regier Memorial Golf Tournament Friday, Sept. 3. The four-person scramble, at Colbert Hills Golf Course in Manhattan, will have a shotgun start at noon. Registration is requested by Monday, Aug. 16, but same-day registration will be accepted at 11 a.m.

While some biological research may not directly provide cures for major diseases, it can provide the scientific basis for research that might. Work by K-State’s Jeroen Roelofs is one such example.

The Kaw Valley Rodeo Association’s fourth annual “Tough Enough to Wear Pink” rodeo will be Friday, July 23, to raise awareness of breast and other cancers, and raise funds for Kansas State University’s Johnson Center for Basic Cancer Research.

K-State cancer research center’s Stefan Bossmann, Deryl Troyer, and Viktor Chikan are exploring nanoparticle-induced hyperthermia in the battle against cancer.

Dr. Lynn Hancock was awarded nearly $1.5 million from NIH to investigate the antibiotic resistance of enterococci, a type of bacteria commonly found in hospitals.

When you hear the words: “Dad has cancer,” it is hard not to worry, especially when you are only 9 years old. But a 7Everyday Hero is fighting back. Her efforts are helping everyone diagnosed with cancer.

Named in honor of its founder the late Terry C. Johnson, former university distinguished professor and director of Kansas State University’s Division of Biology, the Johnson Center for Basic Cancer Research at K-State has been working to fight cancer for 30 years.

As a cancer survivor, Kansas State University student Andrew Satterlee says he feels a responsibility to study cancer and make the experience easier on others than it was for himself.

Forty-one undergraduate students are earning cancer research awards from the Johnson Cancer Center.

A study by Cancer Research Award winner Diana Hylton, aimed at alleviating intestinal damage in trauma patients, digressed to an important finding that could affect medication given to the individuals.

What began as research into how diabetics could possibly preserve their eyesight has led to findings that could prolong the vision of children afflicted with retinoblastoma, a cancer that forms in the tissue of the retina.

An award from the National Science Foundation will boost K-State professor Jianhan Chen’s contribution to the study of proteins while also helping college and high school science teachers learn more about computational and structural biology.

Personal health recommendations and diets tailored to better prevent diseases may be in our future, just by focusing on genetics.

K-State’s Christer Aakeroy was recently appointed to the board of governors of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. The prestigious international center, which promotes the advancement of the science of chemistry and crystallography for public benefitis, is a nonprofit, charitable institution based at the University of Cambridge in England.

The Johnson Cancer Center hosted the “Think Pink” quilt show throughout October, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Check out pics of the quilts here.

Katsura Asano, K-State associate professor in biology, received nearly $200,000 from the National Institutes of Health’s National Inst. of General Medical Sciences through Recovery Act funding. The grant is to study how eukaryotic cells — like the ones humans have — initiate the process of building proteins.

The second annual “In the Pink“ breast cancer awareness luncheon was Wed Oct 14, 2009. There were speakers, lunch, prizes and goodie bags.

Participants at this conference chose from various women’s health and wellness presentations, enjoyed a healthy breakfast with other great ladies, got wellness tests and massages, and won prizes!

Where biology, chemistry and physics intersect, Kansas State University’s Dr. Robert Szoszkiewics expects to find applications to improve human health.

A K-State researcher is studying the potential health benefits of a specially bred purple sweet potato because its dominant purple color results in an increased amount of anti-cancer components.

A Kansas State University student has been a lead researcher on three separate projects that have wide implications in the health, medical and energy fields.

Research excellence is earning three Kansas State University scientists honors from K-State’s chapter of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society.

Hieu Sy “Danny” Vu, a Kansas State University graduate student in biology from Vietnam, has been awarded the Konza and Manhattan Rotary clubs’ $500 International Graduate Student Scholarship.

A Kansas State University senior has received a Science and Mathematics Research for Transformation scholarship through the U.S. Department of Defense for graduate studies in geography, and is the recipient of K-State’s 2009 Presidential Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Student in Research for her work to predict disease outbreaks.

More than 40 undergraduate students at Kansas State University will receive funding for cancer research from K-State’s Terry C. Johnson Center for Basic Cancer Research.

Kansas State University’s newest Barry M. Goldwater scholar is planning an extensive career in immunology research, and he jump-started his goal when he sought a lab assistant job as a freshman at K-State.

by cancer center director Rob Denell, PhD
We all know diehard Kansas State University fans who root for whatever team is playing against the University of Kansas — and I’m sure the sentiment goes both ways. But when it comes to something as critical as cancer research, cooperation is vital.

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius recently announced a new cooperative agreement between the two institutions.