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,...
Nov 5, 2020 | Cancer Scholars Program, Student Spotlight
Vongai Tizora, Bioengineering Junior Cancer Scholars Program, 2018 Cohort Hometown: Forsyth, Illinois Do you have current or past experience working in a cancer research laboratory? If so, who was the principle investigator, and what was your role/area of research?...
Oct 1, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Researchers affiliated with the Cancer Center at Illinois discovered a novel small molecule compound that is now the subject of a new global licensing agreement between the pharmaceutical company Bayer AG and the cancer drug development company Systems Oncology LLC....
Sep 1, 2020 | Cancer Center News
The Cancer Center at Illinois extends its congratulations to our colleagues who have received a promotion, tenure, or emeritus status at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, effective at the beginning of the 2020-2021 academic year. Promoted CCIL members...
Aug 4, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, scientists and health care providers are seeking ways to keep the coronavirus from infecting tissues once they’re exposed. A new study suggests luring the virus with a decoy – an engineered,...
Jul 7, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Cathy Murphy, Cancer Center at Illinois member, professor, and Larry R. Faulkner Endowed Chair in Chemistry, is making history as the first female Head of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Murphy has been an Illini since the 1980’s, during...
Jun 24, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Professor Yi Lu has been named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Joseph Chatt Award. The Jay and Ann Schenck Professor of Chemistry won the award for elucidating design principles of artificial metalloproteins to gain novel and deeper insights into the...
May 25, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Jodi Flaws, Professor of Comparative Biosciences, recently published a paper in Toxicological Sciences reviewing the research linking dozens of environmental chemicals to changes in the gut microbiome and associated health challenges. “Chemicals such as...
Apr 7, 2020 | Cancer Center News
A warm, tropical island protects the secrets of mysterious, colorful flora, while scientists spend decades searching for medical remedies. This may seem like the start to an Indiana Jones adventure, and for University of Illinois Chemistry Assistant Professor and...
Mar 5, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Wawrzyniec Dobrucki, professor of bioengineering, and Auinash Kalsotra, professor of biochemistry, have published their research on myotonic dystrophy, which generates lethal heart dysfunctions. The researchers and their team genetically engineered mice to express the...
Feb 27, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Paul J. Hergenrother, the Kenneth L. Rinehart Endowed Chair in Natural Products Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry, has been appointed the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Deputy Director effective March 1, 2020. Paul currently co-leads the CCIL research...
Feb 6, 2020 | Cancer Center News
The Chan group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology has recently developed a probe named CoxFluor, which is able to distinguish between Cyclooxygenase-2, an enzyme that plays a major role in driving the progression of cancer, and...
