Feb 10, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois researcher Wenyan Mei, professor of comparative biosciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine, is a member of the first cohort of CCIL’s JumpStart Program. In an effort to catalyze more cancer research projects among Illinois...
Aug 24, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Stephen G. Sligar has spent the last 40 years at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign applying his expertise in membrane proteins and his nanodisc technology to better understand biological pathways and address diseases including cancer. Urbana, Ill. – Stephen...
Nov 17, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Hong Jin. Urbana, Ill. – Over the past year, the Hong Jin lab at the University of Illinois has been focusing on a potential oncogene, developmentally-regulated GTP-ase (Drg1), and its function in tumor progression. A recent, critical decision to examine...
Oct 12, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Nicholas Wu – professor of biochemistry; recipient of NIH New Innovator Award Urbana, Ill. – Nicholas Wu, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has received a National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award,...
Aug 31, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Stephen Sligar, a Cancer Center at Illinois researcher and faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, has been selected as a Vallee Visiting Professor to pursue collaborative research at the University of Oxford, focusing on protein-protein and...
Aug 27, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Illinois researchers developed a method that makes membrane-bound receptors reactive to light, triggering the Wnt pathway, important in embryonic development and cancer. Image courtesy of Kai Zhang. Urbana, Ill. – Blue light is illuminating a new understanding of a...
Aug 11, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – When Auinash Kalsotra, associate professor and the William C. Rose Scholar of biochemistry, attended college at Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India, he knew he wanted to pursue an entrepreneurial career inspired by his family members....
Jul 28, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Estrogen receptors, proteins that promote cell growth, are therapeutic targets for endocrine-based breast cancer therapies. These therapies, including aromatase inhibitor treatments, perform well against breast cancer cells with normal, “wild type”...
Jul 12, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Four Illinois students received the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Graduate Cancer Scholarships to pursue cancer research projects under the mentorship of CCIL scientists. “A core mission of the Cancer Center at Illinois is to mobilize and...
Jun 17, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Top row, left to right: M. Taher Saif, Shannon Sirk, Kimberly Selting; Middle row: Rashid Bashir, Cecilia Leal, Jason Ridlon; Bottom row: Supriya Prasanth, Hua Li, Mohammed El-Kebir Nine interdisciplinary projects designed by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign...
Apr 30, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Removing the phosphate group from kinases can activate them, which can be problematic. LanCL adds glutathione to these kinases, after which they became deactivated. Urbana, Ill. – Researchers from the University of Illinois in collaboration with scientists at Oxford...
Nov 10, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Current cancer treatments include drugs that target standard protein synthesis in cells, which can kill cancer cells, but also targets healthy cells. To address this issue, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member and professor of biophysics and quantitative biology,...
