May 26, 2026 | Cancer Center News
Researchers in the lab of Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Xing Wang discovered the influential role of structural chirality, or “handedness”, of a DNA nanostructure to dictate cancer cell response to targeted therapeutics. The team’s findings are reported in...
May 20, 2026 | Cancer Center News
Researchers at the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) are using advanced imaging to better understand drug-tolerant cells. Cancer cells do not always respond to chemotherapy in the same way. Some cells survive treatment and later contribute to treatment failure or...
May 14, 2026 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) members Viktor Gruev and Dr. Claudius Conrad recently appeared on WCIA to discuss new imaging technology developed in Gruev’s lab to detect cancer in lymph nodes using ultraviolet and infrared cameras. The cameras were 97%...
May 13, 2026 | Cancer Center News, Member Spotlight
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) has more than 125 members from across the Illinois campus. Given the great variety in backgrounds, research disciplines, and experiences of our members, we offer our Q&A series “Get to Know a Cancer Researcher” to...
May 13, 2026 | Cancer Center News
A new camera system developed by researchers at the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) and Carle Illinois College of Medicine (CI MED) could help surgeons instantly determine whether to remove a patient’s lymph nodes during cancer surgery. The system uses ultraviolet...
May 7, 2026 | Cancer Center News
Auinash Kalsotra, a member of the Cancer Center at Illinois, has been named the Phillip A. Sharp Professor in Biochemistry. Dr. Kalsotra is one of the world’s pre-eminent RNA researchers and has also been recognized as one of the University of Illinois’ leading...
May 7, 2026 | Cancer Center News
One day, on assignment researching non-canonical functions of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases — housekeeping enzymes essential for protein synthesis — Pallob Barai noticed an intriguing pattern. “A particular AARS enzyme, TARS1, was found to be correlated with poor patient...
May 6, 2026 | Cancer Center News
Higher levels of the structural proteins collagen and fibrin around a tumor counterintuitively make the tissue softer — the opposite of conventional thinking, a new study shows. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found that the interplay of...