Sep 30, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Sylvia Crowder, PhD, Food Science and Human NutritionCancer Scholars for Translational and Applied Research (C★STAR ) 2017 Cohort Where are you working now? I am a T-32 Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior at Moffitt Cancer Center in...
Sep 29, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new computational tool that can identify pathways related to diseases, including breast and prostate cancer, using single-nucleotide polymorphisms. SNPs, which refer to mutations in a person’s...
Sep 29, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Photo of Saurabh Sinha. Urbana, Ill. – In bioinformatics, machine learning (ML) tools are used to solve problems in molecular biology and genetics. In healthy cells, genes — the carriers of hereditary information — are switched “on” or “off” to carry out specific...
Sep 27, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Representative computational PS-OCT images from cancer, adipose, and stroma tissue specimens, compared with the real PS-OCT images. Source: npj Digital Medicine Urbana, Ill. – Yi “Edwin” Sun, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineering at the University...
Sep 23, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – The Cancer Center at Illinois is excited to announce the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate students selected for the 2021 Tissue Microenvironment (TiME) Training Program. Four Illinois students were selected for the TiME Program, focused...
Sep 22, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Photo of Nicholas Wu. Urbana, Ill. – Nicholas Wu, assistant professor of biochemistry, was recently named an associate member of the Cancer Center at Illinois. Previously focusing on viruses such as influenza and COVID-19 in his research, Wu is eager to expand his...
Sep 15, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Mohammed El-Kebir. Urbana, Ill. – Artificial intelligence is often employed in the field of cancer genomics, where bits of DNA sequencing data must be identified and further analyzed with statistical, evolutional, and probabilistic models. “Off-the-shelf”...
Sep 15, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Sisi He, PhD Candidate, Molecular and Integrative PhysiologyTiMe 2016 CohortC*STAR 2017 Cohort Where are you working now? Currently I’m working as a scientist at NGM Biopharmaceuticals located at California Bay area. What are you currently researching? I am...
Sep 10, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Benita Katzenellenbogen (left) and John Katzenellenbogen (left). Urbana, Ill. – CCIL members Benita Katzenellenbogen, professor of molecular and integrative physiology, and John Katzenellenbogen, professor of chemistry, collaborated with researchers at Scripps...
Sep 7, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Pictured left to right: CCIL members Zeynep Madak-Erdogan and Rebecca Smith Urbana, Ill. – Eight faculty from a range of disciplines across the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus have joined Carle Illinois College of Medicine with Health Innovation...
Sep 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms that teach computers to perform tasks, can efficiently identify patterns and relationships in large amounts of data. These abilities have made AI techniques and tools indispensable in the cancer research...