Oct 29, 2020 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois is excited to announce the inaugural recipients of the Kristine Neuhoff Twyman Breast Cancer Scholarship. Qianying Zuo, an Illinois graduate student in food science and nutrition, and Joy Chen, a bioengineering undergraduate, were awarded...
Oct 26, 2020 | Cancer Center News, TiMe Program
Hi! I’m Catherine, a dietitian and a postdoctoral cancer researcher in the department of Animal Sciences at Illinois. Last year, I was diagnosed with triple-positive breast cancer. For Breast Cancer Awareness Month this year, I shared some of my experiences with the...
Oct 20, 2020 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois welcomes new member, Hua Wang, Material Science and Engineering (MATSE) Assistant Professor, back to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Wang completed his PhD in material science at Illinois and went onto Harvard University and...
Oct 12, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Matthew Boudreau, a chemistry PhD candidate in the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Deputy Director Paul Hergenrother’s lab, has been awarded the prestigious F99/K00 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Boudreau’s research has centered around a novel...
Oct 8, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Tissues and cells in the human body are subjected to a constant push and pull – strained by other cells, blood pressure and fluid flow, to name a few. The type and direction of the force on a cell alters gene expression by stretching different...
Oct 5, 2020 | Cancer Scholars Program, CCIL Ambassadors
As a large research institution, the University of Illinois offers its students the opportunity to work within faculty labs as well as spread awareness for the research happening blocks away from their dorms. The Cancer Center at Illinois Ambassador program enables...
Oct 1, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Researchers affiliated with the Cancer Center at Illinois discovered a novel small molecule compound that is now the subject of a new global licensing agreement between the pharmaceutical company Bayer AG and the cancer drug development company Systems Oncology LLC....