Jul 18, 2024 | Cancer Center News
CCIL program leader Brendan Harley was featured on WCIA for Glioblastoma Awareness Day. Researchers worldwide are working to better understand the aggessive brain tumor so they can find new ways to help patients. Watch the interview to hear from Harley about his...
Jul 16, 2024 | Cancer Center News
It was the early 1980s. At the time, glioblastoma patients survived on average for only 10-11 months. Four decades later, the life expectancy has only marginally improved by a few months. For one team of scientists, these aren’t just statistics but family...
Jan 24, 2024 | Cancer Center News
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research team, from left, Kim Selting, Sara Pedron-Haba, and Catherine Best-Popescu, are recipients of grants from the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) and the Elsa U. Pardee Foundation A $25,000 grant from the Cancer Center at...
Oct 20, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Congratulations to Professor Catherine Christian-Hinman, who was selected to receive the 2023 University of Virginia School of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award in Biomedical Sciences. The award recognizes exceptional research and professional accomplishments,...
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...
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 5, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of numerical breast phantoms. Urbana, Ill. – When new medical imaging systems are designed, they must undergo robust assessments and refinements to ensure that the images they produce contain as much diagnostically-relevant information as possible. Until now,...
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...
Jul 5, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Sara Pedron Haba The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) named chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Sara Pedron Haba a 2021 AACR NextGen Star and a 2022 Minority and Minority-serving Institution Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research, an award that...
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...
Dec 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Elizabeth Salerno. Urbana, Ill. – Elizabeth Salerno, a former Cancer Scholars for Translational and Applied Research (C★STAR) student, is continuing her cancer research as an assistant professor of surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine, St....