Cancer researchers often require live tumors to test their new treatments. But harvesting live tumors is painful and dangerous, and creating new tumors in a lab can be time-consuming and difficult. Purdue researchers have developed a novel solution: inkjet-printed tumors. By printing biomaterial in a unique two-dimensional pattern, these specimens naturally fold in on themselves to become lifelike 3D tumoroids, in a process called morphogenesis.
A program led by Michigan State University’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources in collaboration with Purdue’s College of Agriculture has received a five-year funding extension from the U.S. Agency of International Development, bringing the total project’s support up to $35 million.
Karen Plaut, executive vice president for research, has named Eugenio Culurciello, a professor of biomedical engineering, as interim director of the Institute for Physical Artificial Intelligence, a key interdisciplinary research institute that contributes to one of what are now four key pillars in the Purdue Computes initiative.
A new Purdue Online Learning 2.0 Military Advisory Board will help identify avenues to advance Purdue’s overarching objective of educating and supporting more military-affiliated students, especially through the unmatched continuum of online educational programs Purdue offers.