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Erik Nelson reflects on his journey in cancer research, new drug treatments, and reasons for optimism

Erik Nelson reflects on his journey in cancer research, new drug treatments, and reasons for optimism

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...
CCIL expert researchers boost activity of potential therapeutic target in triple-negative breast cancer

CCIL expert researchers boost activity of potential therapeutic target in triple-negative breast cancer

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...
Interdisciplinary researchers receive $2M to develop next-generation 3D ultrasound imaging device

Interdisciplinary researchers receive $2M to develop next-generation 3D ultrasound imaging device

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...
$2.5M NIH grant awarded to CCIL scientist to advance ultrasound monitoring for breast cancer

$2.5M NIH grant awarded to CCIL scientist to advance ultrasound monitoring for breast cancer

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...
Development of virtual imaging and machine learning tools for advancing PACT breast cancer imaging awarded $2.3M

Development of virtual imaging and machine learning tools for advancing PACT breast cancer imaging awarded $2.3M

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,...
Molecular probe links high-fat diet to nitric oxide levels, cancer development

Molecular probe links high-fat diet to nitric oxide levels, cancer development

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...
New engineering approach enhances antibody fragments for cancer therapy

New engineering approach enhances antibody fragments for cancer therapy

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,...
New ultrasound research from CCIL faculty extends longstanding leadership in the field

New ultrasound research from CCIL faculty extends longstanding leadership in the field

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...
Illinois Scientist Developing Cancer Drug Delivery Method with Bioengineered Microbes

Illinois Scientist Developing Cancer Drug Delivery Method with Bioengineered Microbes

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...
Cancer Center at Illinois team finds treatment of liver metastases in breast cancer patients improved by low-carb diets

Cancer Center at Illinois team finds treatment of liver metastases in breast cancer patients improved by low-carb diets

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...
Illinois student utilizing nanoparticles for better cancer imaging, treatment

Illinois student utilizing nanoparticles for better cancer imaging, treatment

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...
‘Molecular Velcro’ enables tissues to sense, react to mechanical force

‘Molecular Velcro’ enables tissues to sense, react to mechanical force

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...
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