Feb 21, 2023 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois researcher Erik Nelson, professor of molecular and integrative physiology in the School of Molecular & Cellular Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, considers this moment “a milestone” in his career. Several...
Dec 5, 2022 | Cancer Center News
John Katzenellenbogen, left, Benita Katzenellenbogen and their colleagues found that stimulating estrogen receptor beta in triple-negative breast cancers alters the activity of cancer-related genes and reduces the growth and metastasis of these breast cancers. The...
Oct 18, 2022 | Cancer Center News
(From left): Pengfei Song, a researcher at the Beckman Institute and a professor of electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering; Matthew Lowerison, a Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow; and Zhijie Dong, a Ph.D. student in the Song Lab, are members of an...
Oct 12, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Images showing coronal, axial, and sagittal speed of sound images of the breast, taken with the QT Imaging scanner. Urbana, Ill. – A Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researcher has been awarded a multi-million-dollar federal grant to develop an advanced...
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,...
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...
Apr 20, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Shannon Sirk Technological advancements over the past few decades have laid the groundwork for the use of microbe-based drugs to treat diseases. Bioengineering professor Shannon Sirk and her lab are engineering human commensal microbes into living therapeutics,...
Apr 14, 2022 | Cancer Center News
This kidney cancer tumor model imaged using ultrasound localization techniques captures directional flow mapping of the tumor and distinguishes between feeding and draining vasculature. More than 75 years after the Fry brothers arrived at Grainger Engineering, the...
Mar 30, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Shannon Sirk and the Sirk Research Group. Urbana, Ill. – An Illinois research team is developing a method of producing and delivering monoclonal antibody treatments for breast cancer through commensal microbes in the gut. If successful, this approach could increase...
Mar 8, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Image of Zeynep Madak-Erdogan Urbana, Ill. – A new study by Cancer Center at Illinois Education Program Leader, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan and her team, have found a new mechanism of endocrine resistance in breast cancers metastasized to the liver. The study, published in...
Feb 22, 2022 | Student Spotlight, TiMe Program
Image of Opeyemi Arogundade. Urbana, Ill. – Opeyemi Arogundade, Tissue Microenvironment (TiME) program trainee and student in Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) scientist, Andrew Smith’s, lab, is applying his academic background in physics to cancer research and...
Feb 10, 2022 | Cancer Center News
University of Illinois professor Deborah Leckband led a study that revealed how Velcro-like cellular proteins called cadherins sense tissue mechanics to regulate cell communication and biological tissue growth. Photo courtesy of Claire Benjamin. Urbana, Ill. – The...
