
Michael Schug
Michael Schug, an award-winning communicator, is the communications manager at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center. In this role, he promotes the impactful research generated by the center’s nearly 250 scientists and physician-scientists to both external and internal audiences.
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Dr. Koch answers questions about prostate cancer
Michael Schug | Nov 17, 2020
HPV expert Darron Brown, MD, discusses the vaccine’s dramatic impact on reducing cervical cancer
Michael Schug | Nov 11, 2020
Dr. Marino, others demonstrate the importance of studying the “normal breast”
Michael Schug | Nov 10, 2020
Aha moment takes Dr. Ivan, colleagues down unexplored territory
Michael Schug | Oct 06, 2020
Clinical Trials Office juggles research work, life amid a pandemic
Before the World Health Organization declared the spreading coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on March 11, the staff of the IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Clinical Trials Office (CTO) was going about their important work. While their work has changed since then, cancer clinical trials never stopped. In fact, in the face of uncertainty, the staff has increased patient accrual over last year and streamlined some administrative tasks.
Michael Schug | Oct 02, 2020
2 students with interest in combining cancer research with patient care are Wright Scholarship recipients
Michael Schug | Sep 14, 2020
IU physicians, Purdue scientists collaborate to develop a test to detect kidney cancer
Michael Schug | Jul 10, 2020
Clinical trial for a rare cancer keeps local educator, former athlete active
Demetrius “Dee” Dowler was 31 years old when he was diagnosed with thymoma, a rare cancer of the thymus gland. There is no good time to be diagnosed with cancer but 2001 was a particularly busy time for Dowler, a time when his life was full with a young family and a new career. Dowler, […]
Michael Schug | Dec 20, 2019
IU researcher talks about close ties to Nobel winner
Indiana University School of Medicine’s Mircea Ivan, MD, PhD, has a strong connection to this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Dr. William Kaelin Jr. of Harvard University and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Ivan was a postdoctoral fellow and subsequently an instructor in Dr. Kaelin’s lab between 1998 and 2002 and first-authored the […]
Michael Schug | Nov 01, 2019
Ballinger earns Career Development Award from ASCO Conquer Cancer Foundation
Tarah Ballinger, MD, was named a recipient of the Career Development Award presented by the Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). It was presented at the recent 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago. The Career Development Award provides research funding to clinical investigators as they establish an independent research program. […]
Michael Schug | Jun 27, 2019