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Novel Wound Healing Technology Aims to Help Patients Heal More Quickly after Cancer Surgery

Novel Wound Healing Technology Aims to Help Patients Heal More Quickly after Cancer Surgery

Jun 18, 2024 | Cancer Center News

Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Joseph Irudayaraj, the CCIL’s Associate Director for Shared Resources and professor of bioengineering, published new research in Nature Communications, demonstrating the potential of a new therapeutic to accelerate and enhance...
Chitra Subramanian Leads Discovery of New Tools to Diagnose and Treat Head and Neck Cancers

Chitra Subramanian Leads Discovery of New Tools to Diagnose and Treat Head and Neck Cancers

May 23, 2024 | Cancer Center News

Much like a criminal profiler tracking a suspect, Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Chitra Subramanian is tracking lipids in her quest to discover new tools for diagnosing and treating cancers that start in the head and neck. The research uses two powerful tools...
ER-positive Breast Cancer Presents Differing Metabolic Signatures in African American, White Women

ER-positive Breast Cancer Presents Differing Metabolic Signatures in African American, White Women

Sep 13, 2023 | Cancer Center News

Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher and Director of Education, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan. (Photo by L. Brian Stauffer) New research found the most common form of breast cancer presents differing metabolic signatures in the blood of African American women with...
Imaging agents light up two cancer biomarkers at once to give more complete picture of tumor

Imaging agents light up two cancer biomarkers at once to give more complete picture of tumor

Jun 7, 2023 | Cancer Center News

Postdoctoral researcher Indrajit Srivastava, left, and CCIL researcher Viktor Gruev, professor of electrical and computer engineering, led a team of researchers developing new cancer imaging agents that can light up two cancer biomarkers when lit by one fluorescent...
Cancer Center at Illinois scientists improve BRAF inhibitor for better blood brain barrier penetration

Cancer Center at Illinois scientists improve BRAF inhibitor for better blood brain barrier penetration

Jul 28, 2022 | Cancer Center News

Timothy Fan and Paul Hergenrother. Urbana, Ill. – Cancers that begin in the brain, or start elsewhere in the body and spread to it, are notoriously difficult to treat. Illinois researchers in Cancer Center at Illinois labs are looking to improve those odds by...
Microscopy Technique Employed to Characterize Redox States of Single Extracellular Vesicles, Biomarkers for Some Cancers

Microscopy Technique Employed to Characterize Redox States of Single Extracellular Vesicles, Biomarkers for Some Cancers

Jun 14, 2021 | Cancer Center News

Stephen Boppart  Urbana, Ill. – Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and the Cancer Center at Illinois employed a specialized microscopy technique, two-photon fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy, to image and biochemically...
Illinois Graduate Leads Campus RSO to Support the Fight Against Cancer

Illinois Graduate Leads Campus RSO to Support the Fight Against Cancer

Jun 9, 2021 | Cancer Center News

Image of Courtney Ketchum. Urbana, Ill. – When a patient battling blood cancer needs a bone marrow transplant, their chances of survival are very low unless a match is found. Unfortunately, the chance of an immediate familial match is only 30%. Courtney Ketchum, a...
Gene expression altered by direction of forces acting on cell

Gene expression altered by direction of forces acting on cell

Oct 8, 2020 | Cancer Center News

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Tissues and cells in the human body are subjected to a constant push and pull – strained by other cells, blood pressure and fluid flow, to name a few. The type and direction of the force on a cell alters gene expression by stretching different...
CCIL Research Program Leader’s Personalized Cancer Diagnostics Project Leads to NIH Grant

CCIL Research Program Leader’s Personalized Cancer Diagnostics Project Leads to NIH Grant

Aug 31, 2020 | Cancer Center News

When assessing whether or not a tumor is benign or cancerous, a needle biopsy is the usual method of diagnosis. The tissue can then be analyzed to determine what mutations are present that are specific to the patient. Because this method is invasive, it’s generally...
Decoy Receptor Neutralizes Coronavirus in Cell Cultures

Decoy Receptor Neutralizes Coronavirus in Cell Cultures

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,...
CCIL Member Finds Heart Attack Survivors More Likely to Develop Breast Cancer

CCIL Member Finds Heart Attack Survivors More Likely to Develop Breast Cancer

Jul 17, 2020 | Cancer Center News

Breast cancer patients are 60 percent more likely to die of cancer after surviving a heart attack, according to a new study published in Nature Medicine. Researchers reported that heart attacks, by blocking blood flow through arteries, trigger a specific, pro-cancer...
Collaboration Between CCIL Member and Mayo Clinic Leads to New Techniques for High-Fidelity Ultrasound Super-Super-Resolution Imaging

Collaboration Between CCIL Member and Mayo Clinic Leads to New Techniques for High-Fidelity Ultrasound Super-Super-Resolution Imaging

May 14, 2020 | Cancer Center News

Conventional ultrasound techniques are used to diagnose and monitor cancer patients around the world. However, clinical ultrasound is limited when attempting to distinguish between subtle vascular changes. Collaborations between researchers from Illinois and Mayo...
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