The Whelan Lab has moved!
We now do the same great research a little bit
further west at the University of Kansas.
Look for a link to our new website here soon...
We are a bioanalytical chemistry lab studying Ovarian Cancer.
Our Motivation:
The long-term survival statistics associated with ovarian cancer have remained unchanged for decades, and most ovarian cancer patients are diagnosed only after their disease has progressed to a metastatic stage. These cancer deaths are largely preventable: early detection of ovarian cancer correlates strongly with high rates of long-term survival. Early detection of ovarian cancer remains out of reach, however, in part because the existing tests for cancer-specific proteins (biomarkers) are insufficiently informative to be useful.
We view ovarian cancer as a human health problem in need of a measurement science solution. If we can identify alternative affinity probes—displaying more reliable detection of cancer-associated proteins—we can then use these probes as the basis of new tests for ovarian cancer.
Our Motivation:
The long-term survival statistics associated with ovarian cancer have remained unchanged for decades, and most ovarian cancer patients are diagnosed only after their disease has progressed to a metastatic stage. These cancer deaths are largely preventable: early detection of ovarian cancer correlates strongly with high rates of long-term survival. Early detection of ovarian cancer remains out of reach, however, in part because the existing tests for cancer-specific proteins (biomarkers) are insufficiently informative to be useful.
We view ovarian cancer as a human health problem in need of a measurement science solution. If we can identify alternative affinity probes—displaying more reliable detection of cancer-associated proteins—we can then use these probes as the basis of new tests for ovarian cancer.
June 2021: Whelan Lab Matching Shirts!
Announcements
Whelan Lab Funding -Center for Bioanalytic Metrology (an NSF-IUCRC) -T.E.A.L. Foundation -Institute for Precision Health -Indiana CTSI Disease Diagnostics Inventors Challenge -Walther Cancer Foundation -CBBI (to Naviya and Simon) -Berry Family Foundation Fellowship -Rebecca Taiclet Hizer Memorial Fellowship -Harper Cancer Research Institute |