Jul 6, 2022 | Cancer Center News
The research team included Yo-Chuen Lin (bottom left) and Dazhen Liu (bottom right), along with Professors Supriya Prasanth (above) and KV Prasanth. Urbana, Ill. – Initiation of DNA duplication requires a six-subunit complex, the Origin Recognition Complex (ORC) that...
Jun 23, 2022 | Cancer Center News
MYC promotes POLR3G gene expression, shaping Pol III identity and downstream transcription activities associated with cell proliferation. Urbana, Ill. – Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Stanford University School of Medicine have...
Jun 9, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Sam Corley, undergraduate, Computer Science Urbana, Ill. — The Illini 4000 is a non-profit organization whose members are University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students that are documenting the American cancer experience through The Portraits Project, raising funds...
Jun 2, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Photo credit: College of Veterinary Medicine A trial led by Dr. Tim Fan at Illinois will evaluate safety and effectiveness of cANK-101 in dogs with oral malignant melanoma. This canine drug was developed by Ankyra Therapeutics, a Boston-based biotech company, using...
Jun 1, 2022 | Cancer Center News
From left to right: Ruiyang Xue, Shuming Nie, Jamie Jones, and Indrajit Srivastava. Urbana, Ill. – Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) gold nanoparticles are an ultrasensitive tool used by researchers for in-vitro medical diagnostics and for providing crucial...
May 25, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Cannabis has long been used to alleviate pain, reduce anxiety, and treat inflammation, with the earliest records dating back to 2737 B.C. in China. Today, many cancer patients use cannabis to treat pain and chemotherapy-related symptoms such as nausea,...
May 20, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Jeff Chan (left), an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the study’s principal investigator, and Anuj Yadav (right), a senior research associate and the study’s lead coauthor. It has long been hypothesized...
May 18, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Photo of Van Bortle Lab members. From left to right: Sihang Zhou, Ruiying Cheng, Rajendra K C, and Kevin Van Bortle. Urbana, Ill. – Kevin Van Bortle has been interested in chromatin and transcription dynamics since the start of his research career as a graduate...
May 12, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Patrick Sweeney, an expert in the brain’s regulation of feeding and body weight, recently joined the University of Illinois as an assistant professor of molecular and integrative physiology and a scientist at the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) to...
May 10, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Zhi-Pei Liang (right), a faculty researcher at the Beckman Institute, received the Gold Medal from the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine at a ceremony in London on Monday, May 9, 2022. Pictured left: Fernando Calamante, the President of the...
May 9, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Diwakar Shukla has been named among the most influential bioengineering researchers globally by a leading journal in the field: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, which the American Chemical...
May 4, 2022 | Cancer Center News, Student Spotlight, TiMe Program
Urbana, Ill. – Microorganisms like bacteria make up colonies and clusters that produce metabolites with particular properties, creating a microbiome that impacts human health and disease, including cancer. Yoon Jeong, a recipient of the Cancer Center at Illinois...
