Mar 4, 2025 | Cancer Center News
Michael Mulligan, a Ph.D. student in the lab of Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Deputy Director Paul Hergenrother, recently discovered that a small molecule called ErSO-TFPy has the ability to drastically reduce the size of large breast tumors in mice. Even more...
Nov 12, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Read time: 2 minutesKeywords: seed grants, metastatic breast cancer The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Seed Grant program awarded a promising study of breast cancer metastasis led by Ashok Samuel, a CCIL member and a faculty member in the Department of...
Sep 17, 2024 | Cancer Center News
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Illinois has discovered a potential new treatment option for drug-resistant breast cancer. Their findings, published in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, demonstrates the role of activators of...
Sep 12, 2024 | Cancer Center News
For typical illnesses, the body’s immune system is a robust, pathogen-killing machine. It provides a general defense against harmful germs while also adapting and producing antibodies that target specific bacteria or viruses. After fighting off an infection like...
Aug 14, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois researchers Zeynep Madak-Erdogan and Erik Nelson tried their hand at dragon boating this summer, with a visit to the Prairie Dragon Paddlers at Homer Lake. Prairie Dragon Paddlers is a non-profit organization designed to support breast cancer...
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...
May 14, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Hua Wang, professor of materials science and engineering, published new research in Materials Today Bio demonstrating the development of a novel technology to prevent post-surgical recurrence of breast cancer, especially...
May 3, 2024 | Cancer Center News
The Center for Environment, PFAS, and Cancer Toxicology (CEPaCT) held a meeting on April 25 at the Beckman Institute to discuss recent project and administrative updates. CEPaCT was founded by Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Joseph Irudayaraj and focuses on...
Mar 26, 2024 | Cancer Center News
In 2018 Qianying Zuo won the Kathryn Van Akken Burns Memorial Fund Merit Award while working in the lab of the CCIL’s Associate Director of Education and Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar of Nutrition and Cancer, Zeynep Madak-Erdogan. As a graduate student in Madak-Erdogan’s...
Feb 28, 2024 | Cancer Center News, Honors and Awards
From left to right, Prof. Borislav Kondov, Viktor Gruev, and ZHongmin Zhu, shown here in the operating room at the University Clinic Hospital in North Macedonia along with the NSF-funded research team’s imaging instrument which allows for evaluation of ex vivo...
Feb 7, 2024 | Cancer Center News
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan is the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) Associate Director for Education and Sylvia D. Stroup Scholar of Nutrition and Cancer, Associate Professor of Food Science & Human Nutrition, and Associate Dean in the Graduate College Cancer Center at...
Dec 14, 2023 | Cancer Center News
This year proved to be one of success and growth for the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL). Below you’ll find 10 of the year’s biggest moments in research, education, and community engagement, meet our new members, and have the chance to dive deeper into...
