Jan 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Illinois professor of veterinary clinical medicine Dr. Timothy Fan, left, and chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother. The U. of I. team found that the compound PAC-1 has therapeutic potential in pet dogs with spontaneously occurring cancers. The animal studies set the...
Dec 5, 2022 | Cancer Center News
John Katzenellenbogen, left, Benita Katzenellenbogen and their colleagues found that stimulating estrogen receptor beta in triple-negative breast cancers alters the activity of cancer-related genes and reduces the growth and metastasis of these breast cancers. The...
Nov 17, 2022 | Cancer Center News
The interdisciplinary Beckman Institute team included (from left): Anirudha Rao, a graduate student in bioengineering; Scott Robinson, the former Beckman Institute Microscopy Suite Manager; Seth Kenkel, a postdoctoral research associate; Rohit Bhargava, director of...
Nov 15, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – For decades, bright fluorescent cyanine dyes have been used in a variety of medical procedures, like identifying the sentinel lymph nodes where cancer cells might spread or identifying cancerous tumors in fluorescence-guided surgery. Though widely...
Nov 10, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Just as species evolve through mutation and selection acting on individuals in a population, cancer cells and tumors evolve by mutation and selection acting on cells within the tumor. Normal cells divide and mutate over time into subpopulations of...
Oct 28, 2022 | Cancer Center News
(From left): Mark Anastasio, a professor of bioengineering; Stephen Boppart, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering; and Rohit Bhargava, a professor of bioengineering, will use funding from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging...
Oct 25, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Glioblastoma spheroid vasculature. Urbana, Ill. – Glioblastoma is the most common and lethal form of primary brain cancer. One of the reasons it is so hard to treat is that it spreads rapidly and diffusely throughout the brain, using structural features such as blood...
Oct 18, 2022 | Cancer Center News
(From left): Pengfei Song, a researcher at the Beckman Institute and a professor of electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering; Matthew Lowerison, a Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow; and Zhijie Dong, a Ph.D. student in the Song Lab, are members of an...
