Students run to beat cancer
UTD’s pre-health honor society, Alpha Epsilon Delta, held its first-ever color run Sunday afternoon. Color runs are untimed, 5-kilometer races in which participants are doused in colored powders at various milestones during the event. Proceeds from the 5K color run will benefit a fundraising organization, Wendy’s Eagles, and the Lymphoma...
Molecule makes monumental impact
Editor’s Note: Picture caption originally misidentified Tae-Kyung Lee as Jung-Mo Ahn. A UTD professor and his team have developed a molecule that could benefit breast cancer patients who don’t respond to current treatments anymore. Jung-Mo Ahn, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and his team of researchers developed ERX-11,...
Club fights cancer with sweet beverages
Members with, without history of disease show compassion A group of students is using an out-of-the-box method to help the fight against cancer — lemonade. Usman Hyder, molecular biology sophomore, became interested in taking part in that fight last year. “I wanted to be an oncologist, so that’s where my interest...
Cancer research gets funding
Cancer research at UTD has reached a new milestone thanks to a recent grant from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas. Jiyong Lee, an assistant professor of chemistry at UTD, was awarded $194,000 in May to conduct cancer stem cell research that focuses on the prevention and treatment of...