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VOLUME 27, ISSUE 2 21 it's not just cancer research You can help. cancerresearch.purdue.edu ENABLING LIFE. Cancer research discoveries at Purdue are enabling life by: Delivering cancer killing therapies directly to cancer cells, leaving healthy cells unharmed. Finding new methods to image cancer cells resulting in better detection and diagnosis. Guiding surgeons during surgery by illuminating cancer cells so they glow, resulting in real-time confidence that they have removed all of the cancer. Transitioning newly discovered cancer fighting drugs from the Transitioning newly discovered cancer fighting drugs from the lab to clinical trials. Igniting the body's own immune system to attack cancer. "The prospect of targeting cancer cells using nanotechnology has yet to revolutionize cancer drug delivery. Simply put, the field is in need of fresh insights." Al Alex Wei, professor of organic chemistry, is looking for new insights for nanoparticle delivery to tumor cells and tumor-activated macrophages. pass the ball well and get guys open looks, it goes a long way." Purdue has a chance to be better on offense, even without its top scorer and go-to player from a year ago, but … ANSWERS NEEDED ON D Gone are Hammons and Davis and with them go Purdue's two best defen- sive players, the last two Big Ten De- fensive Player-of-the-Year winners and the Boilermakers' defensive identity all at once. Time to retool, to put it mildly. The Boilermakers' personnel is very different now. Hammons was one of the game's elite shot-blockers and the Big Ten's foremost eraser. Davis was Purdue's best wing defender by a mile and its overall tone-setter in the effort column. Those returning do not fit the pro- file of a great pressuring man-to-man team, not that Purdue has pressured as much in years past as it did in Painter's earlier years. The solution: It remains to be seen, but Purdue's starting point in October seemed to be a tweaked philosophy that traded pressure for lane protection, sort of a rank-closing scheme that em- phasized protecting the lane through help, then closing out hard on shooters to recover. "It's more a compact, Wisconsin-style defense than the all-out, man-to-man pressure we're accustomed to," Painter said, "even though we have backed up our pressure the past couple years. … You have to be a good help defensive team, but you can't be in help all the time. If you're constantly helping and constantly in rotations, good teams are eventually going to make you pay." If this philosophy sticks, it will re- 765.447.4165 | www.lafayetteortho.com My Community. My Choice. Robert J. Hagen, MD Peter J. Torok, MD Daniel J. Daluga, MD Michael E. Highhouse, MD John T. Bauman, MD Mark C. Page, MD Michael D. Krauss, MD Joel A. Virkler, DO THE AREA'S PREMIER ORTHOPAEDIC AND SPORTSMEDICINE CENTER LOC_GB2015Ad.indd 1 6/23/15 10:04 AM