On Oct. 14, 2023, Purdue University ensured 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.

During an early timeout in Purdue’s Hammer Down Cancer football game against Ohio State University, Kelly and Tony Trent, Tyler’s parents, helped announce the establishment of Purdue’s new Tyler Trent Pediatric Cancer Research Center within the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research.