Apr 26, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of participants at the CSTAR reception. The Carle Foundation Hospital hosted the Cancer Scholars for Translational and Applied Research (C«STAR) poster session and reception on April 26. Clinicians, administrators, researchers, staff and students joined in the...
Apr 25, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of faculty members in the Nexus Workshop. Over 45 faculty members participated in the first workshop sponsored by the Cancer Center and the Social and Behavioral Science Research Initiative (SBSRI) on April 25. The workshop was designed to bring together social...
Apr 19, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Emily Chen. Emily Chen was selected as one of the Mavis Future Faculty Fellows (MF3) for the 2018-2019 academic year. This program is designed to facilitate the training for the next generation of great engineering professors. Engineering at Illinois is...
Apr 13, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of TiMe Symposium Participants. The TiMe Cohort hosted the second-annual Tissue Microenvironment (TiMe) Day Symposium and Poster Session on April 13, 2018 at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. There were over seventy attendees from 14...
Apr 12, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Anna Arthur, a professor of food science and human nutrition at the University of Illinois. Consuming high amounts of carbohydrates and various forms of sugar during the year prior to treatment for head and neck cancer may increase patients’ risks of cancer...
Apr 9, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Emerging Pathway of Doxorubin Cardiotoxicity. ABSTRACTDoxorubicin (DOX) is among the oldest and most-used chemotherapeutics. However, its use is limited by a cumulative dose that leads to cardiotoxicity. DOX is an anthracycline quinone that is known to...
Apr 5, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Cancer lurking in tissue could be more easily found when looking through a butterfly’s eye. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a surgical camera inspired by the eye of the morpho...
Apr 3, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of William Arnold, a graduate student in biochemistry, and Aditi Das, an assistant professor of biochemistry and bioengineering graduate program. There are many anti-cancer therapeutics that are effective at killing cancer, but some can have serious side...
