May 26, 2021 | Cancer Center News
From left to right: Ratnakar Singh, Michael Spinella, and Zeeshan Fazal Urbana, Ill. – Cancer Center at Illinois scientist, Michael Spinella, has linked the epigenetic changes in testicular germ cell tumors to their cause and cure, opening new avenues of treatment for...
May 20, 2021 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight
Ashlie Santaliz-Casiano, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Tissue Microenvironment Program, 2020 Cohort What does your educational path look like? I grew up in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. I am a product of both in public and private education system on the island. I...
May 14, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Wawrzyniec Dobrucki, left, Zhongmin Zhu, Viktor Gruev, Zuodong Liang, Steven Blair and Shuming Nie collaborated to develop an imaging system that replicates the vision of mantis shrimp and could help surgeons achieve cleaner margins during cancer-removal procedures....
May 13, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Diwakar Shukla is among four early-career professors who have been recognized by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences as Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholars for their...
May 12, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Rohit Bhargava, CCIL Director, and Georgina Cheng, gynecologic oncologist. Urbana, Ill. – Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) scientists conduct basic research, collaborating with physicians at partnered clinics and hospitals to bring their studies from bench to bedside....
May 11, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – A new study, published in JCI insight, looks at how Brd4, a regulator of the innate immune response, influences diet-induced obesity. The researchers believe that Brd4 could be used as a target for obesity and insulin resistance. Approximately one-third...
May 11, 2021 | Cancer Center News
As part of the Cancer Center at Illinois’ (CCIL) education initiative, the Cancer Scholar Program (CSP) invites students of diverse backgrounds and disciplines to enrich their experience at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Recently, the program adopted a...
May 4, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – A team from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Grainger College of Engineering and Mayo Clinic have developed a new technique for creating “microcancer” cell cultures. It allows researchers to form hundreds of microcancers in a...
May 4, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Congratulations to Jie Chen, professor of cell and developmental biology, who was honored with the Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring. The award recognizes faculty members for their sustained excellence in graduate student...
May 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Project title: “Deep Mutational Scanning of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases Involved in Cancer Using Transfer Learning Approaches” Research team includes: Erik Procko, assistant professor in biochemistry What led to your exploration of cancer? Cancer is one of...
