{"id":7209,"date":"2023-10-14T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=7209"},"modified":"2024-07-30T09:34:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T13:34:33","slug":"purdue-names-new-pediatric-cancer-research-center-for-the-late-tyler-trent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2023\/Q4\/purdue-names-new-pediatric-cancer-research-center-for-the-late-tyler-trent","title":{"rendered":"Purdue names new pediatric cancer research center for the late Tyler Trent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"purdue-initial-words-wrap\"><p class=\"purdue-initial-words wp-block-paragraph\">WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &mdash;<\/p> \n<p>More than four years after Tyler Trent\u2019s passing from the rare bone cancer osteosarcoma, Purdue University is ensuring that the memory of the former graduate and devoted Boilermaker football fan will live on through research to cure his disease and other pediatric cancers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/new.www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trent-footballLO.jpg\" alt=\"Tyler Trent\" class=\"wp-image-7210\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trent-footballLO.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trent-footballLO-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trent-footballLO-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tyler Trent. (Photo provided)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday (Oct. 14), during an early timeout in Purdue\u2019s Hammer Down Cancer football game against Ohio State University, Kelly and Tony Trent, Tyler\u2019s parents, helped announce the establishment of Purdue\u2019s new Tyler Trent Pediatric Cancer Research Center within the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/cancer-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Purdue Institute for Cancer Research<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/research\/features\/stories\/purdue-names-new-pediatric-cancer-research-center-for-the-late-tyler-trent\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more on the Office of Research website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Media are encouraged to share, post and publish this content.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &mdash; More than four years after Tyler Trent\u2019s passing from the rare bone cancer osteosarcoma, Purdue University is ensuring that the memory of the former graduate and devoted Boilermaker football fan will live on through research to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,7],"tags":[],"department":[150],"source":[29],"purdue_today_topic":[66],"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-7209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-research-excellence","department-discovery-park","source-purdue-news","purdue_today_topic-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7211,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions\/7211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"purdue_today_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/purdue_today_topic?post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}