Busy pre-med students Katie Grable and Ella Dubbs spent a precious day off driving to Indianapolis to undergo voluntary medical procedures that left them bruised and sore.

And they can’t wait to do it again in five years.

That’s the required wait time between donating healthy breast tissue to the Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center in Indianapolis.

The tissue bank – a resource within the Vera Bradley Foundation Center for Breast Cancer Research – is the only one of its kind in the world, according to IU officials.

By comparing healthy tissues to cancerous cells, “they can kind of see what’s gone wrong,” Grable said. “I think it’s amazing that they do that.”

Grable, from Fort Wayne, and Dubbs, from LaPorte, were intrigued when an ambassador for the pr

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