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Training immune cells to kill tumor cells

In the ongoing fight against cancer, UT Professor Jai Prakash and his team developed a new immunotherapeutic method to treat the disease. Using nanotechnology, he managed to reprogram the immune system to effectively fight breast tumors in mice. The revolutionary method is now ready to be further developed for use in humans, and likely against more types of cancer.
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Faster detection of breast cancer

Detecting breast cancer faster, cheaper and easier – that is what Chris de Korte, professor of Medical Ultrasound Imaging at the UT, is aiming for. With a new 3D ultrasound method, he wants to ensure that women receive a full diagnosis within one day and ‘avoid a week or more of terrible uncertainty’.
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UT scientist runs solo marathon to raise funds for cancer research

To raise money for cancer research at the UT, scientist Sonia García Blanco from the Optical Sciences group will be running a ‘solo marathon’ on the 18th of April. She aims to raise € 25.000 and ‘bring the early diagnosis of cancer a step towards reality’.
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Pioneers in Health Care

‘If this works, it will make a huge change in patient’s lives’

In the last seven years, the Pioneers in Health Care (PIHC) fund has financially supported seventy research projects, all of them aiming to improve patient care in Twente and Salland. How many of them made it to the clinic and what impact are they making in the region? ‘Was every project successful? No, but that is pioneering,’ says project manager Jojanneke Schuiling - Jukes.
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TGS Award for Ana Ortiz Perez

‘We aim to develop a liver tumor-on-a-chip platform’

Ana Ortiz Perez is the winner of this year’s Twente Graduate School (TGS) Award. The recipient of the prize and 2.500 euros was announced today during the digital Opening of the Academic Year ceremony. The UT researcher was selected for her project which aims to develop a tumor-on-a-chip platform that mimics liver cancer.
COVID-19 research at UT

Delays in cancer treatments due to corona crisis

‘Everyone has focused on treating COVID-19, not its collateral damage - which includes delay in cancer diagnosis and treatment,’ says UT professor Maarten IJzerman. He and UT alumnus Koen Degeling have developed a model to show the impact of the pandemic on cancer patients.
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Srinivas Vanapalli and his research into cryogenics

Freeze!

For many people, the word ‘cryogenics’ prompts sci-fi movie flashbacks and images of human bodies being frozen just to be brought back to life hundreds of years later. While that might not be possible, cryogenic engineering relates to many useful and often groundbreaking applications. UT scientist Srinivas Vanapalli, who leads the only cryogenics research group in the Netherlands, is working on some of them. Including a method to ‘freeze and destroy’ tumor cells.
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PneuAct

Unique motor can improve cancer diagnosis

PneuAct is a pneumatic stepper motor developed by UT researcher Foad Sojoodi Farimani. It’s one of a kind – it is fully 3D printed, very fast, highly precise and it’s the cheapest of all similar motors out there. It can improve cancer diagnosis, be used in radioactive environments and even for space exploration.
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Early detection of cancer using blood samples

Cancer is the second main cause of death in the world. This is partly due to issues in cancer treatment, specifically the late detection of the disease. It is therefore paramount to develop novel detection methods and PhD researcher Agustin Enciso-Martinez is working on precisely that.
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Unique treatment from Twente effectively kills cancer

Researchers from the University of Twente are making great strides in the field of cancer treatment. Their novel method has recently been tested on animals and it successfully killed over 80% of pancreatic tumor cells. ‘We can kill cancer much faster and easier,’ says the project’s lead scientist Jai Prakash.
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Twentse behandeling doodt kankercellen

UT-onderzoekers maken grote stappen op het gebied van kankeronderzoek. Ze testten een nieuwe methode op dieren, met succes: meer dan 80 procent van de alvleesklierkankercellen werd uitgeroeid. ‘We doden kankercellen veel sneller en gemakkelijker’, zegt Jai Prakash, kartrekker van het onderzoeksproject.
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Detecting cancer from urine

His aspiration was to save lives, and so he decided to switch from engineering to nanotechnology. The place to do that was the UT, where Dilu George Mathew now works on ‘Early Stage Cancer Detection Sensor’, a device able to detect cancer from patients’ urine. ‘This technique could not only save lives, but also a lot of money.’

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