Michael V. Lasker, an M.D./Ph.D. student at the U of I's College of Medicine in Urbana, and Satish Nair, department of biochemistry, used x-ray crystallography to determine the structure of mouse interleukin-1 receptor-associataed kinase-4 (IRAK-4).
Dave Kranz and colleagues won a $450,000 grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation to study immunotherapies as a safe alternative to surgery for brain cancer.